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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:38:05 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        volker@vwsoft.com
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hardlocks in 8-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <20100323083805.GA2603@current.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <4B995F8B.7000602@vwsoft.com>
References:  <20100308142005.GA2971@current.Sisis.de> <4B995F8B.7000602@vwsoft.com>

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El día Thursday, March 11, 2010 a las 10:24:27PM +0100, volker@vwsoft.com escribió:

> On 01/-10/63 20:59, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > If you go with your laptop to some meeting, you just take it with you and
> > normally not even the power-supply; when you return to your desk, normally
> > you put your laptop on the table, plug-in power and open the lid...
> > 
> > from time to time I encounter that the laptop after opening the lid is
> > just locked, i.e. hardlocked and does not even respond on ping from other
> > places; I did tests to see when it crashes, i.e. if it is based on the
> > movement, of WLAN AP re-connect or whatever; I now always first open it, work a
> > while across WLAN and then plug-in the power; the lock occurs only on
> > the plug-in of the power-supply;
> > 
> > any idea what to do next for debugging this? thanks
> > 
> > 	matthias
> 
> Matthias,
> 
> just a shot in the dark, but I bet keying "res" ENTER (w/o the quotes)
> in while your system seems to be dead will give you 'back' (well, kind
> of) your system. Can you try that the next time, please?
> 
> If that works (reboots your system) we can see if you're able to get a
> core dump out of your box.

Some days ago I catched this (or better: I was catched by this) while
still in ASCII mode short after the re-boot. There was no message on the
screen and keying "res<ENTER>" did nothing, not even any char of "res"
was echoed.

	matthas
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