From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 23:15:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06453 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:15:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw.bby.com.au (ns.bby.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06446 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 23:15:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by fw.bby.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) id SAA01310; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:13:32 +1100 (EST) Received: from melba.bby.com.au(192.43.186.1) via SMTP by fw.bby.com.au, id smtpd001308; Mon Jan 4 07:13:23 1999 Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by melba.bby.com.au (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id SAA15352; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:13:57 +1100 (EST) Received: from lightning (lightning [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA26417; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:13:20 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199901040713.SAA26417@lightning.itga.com.au> From: Gregory Bond To: Mike Smith Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 03 Jan 1999 22:22:23 -0800. Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:13:20 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike sez: >What's clear is that you have something spinning in an interrupt >handler. Soft updates may be triggering this, but there's no guarantee >that it's the cause of the problem. > >Start off by making sure that your softupdates files are symlinks to >the real thing, not stale copies. Then add DDB to your kernel config, >and when the system wedges, hit alt-ctrl-escape, then type "trace" to >get a traceback. If you can do this with a debug kernel (config -g >...) that would be even better. My apologies for unwarranted assumptions. OK, I've compiled up with DDB and -g and I get the following (transcribed by hand, so mind the typos!): _Debugger(msg=f01fa58f) at _Debugger+0x37 [../../i386/i386/db_interface.c:66] _scgetc(flags=2) at _scgetc+0xd9f [../../i386/isa/syscons.c:3738] _scintr(unit=0) at _scintr+0x17 [../../i386/isa/syscons.c:861] Xresume1() at Xresume1+0x2b --- interrupt, eip = 0xf01d0760, esp = 0xf482aeb8, ebp = 0xf482ad68 --- _doreti(f482af88) at _doreti _sched_sync() at _sched_sync+0xa4 [../../kern/vfs_subr.c:499] _kproc_start(udata=f02283ac) at _kproc_start+0x32 [../../kern/init_main.c:311] _fork_trampoline(21cc1589,c766f025,2521ce05,800008f0,2521d025) at _fork_trampoline+0x30 Asking DB for a panic at this point just hangs the system at the "syncing disks..." prompt. I assume that is the same problem. FWIW: All this time, the Alt-Fn still works, until I tried to Alt-Fn to the Xserver. Then it all hung. Anything else I can try? Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message