From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 10 11:39:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A1437B402 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 11:39:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2AJdVt19529; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:39:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 20:39:31 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Christian Weisgerber Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial break into debugger broken from 'cu' on -CURRENT? Message-ID: <20020310203931.D19456@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020310161126.A18441@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20020310175626.A18718@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:15:53PM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 06:15:53PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > It could be that the DS10 was sufficiently catatonic to not react to > > a break (how likely is that in the first place? I was looking at a hard > > lockup). > > If you experience one of the lockups that currently plague > -CURRENT/alpha, the machine won't react to break, ctrl-alt-esc, or > anything else except HALT and RESET. > > > Now that I followed Drew's suggestion to > > > > > > I suggest reverting rev 1.61 of alpha/alpha/interrupt.c (eg, disable > > interrupt thread preemption). > > > > > > I have not seen a lockup anymore. > > Neither have I, but I have only been running with it for a day, and > it has previously managed to survive for up to two days without > locking up. Well, I had a close to 100% lockup or panic chance when I ran a make release. I just completed a succesful buildworld, and will subsequently run a make release. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ FreeBSD core team secretary |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message