Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:16 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose? Message-ID: <20071106015916.GC56023@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20071106124835.694b48ef@meijome.net> References: <472F7BE9.8080807@polands.org> <20071106124835.694b48ef@meijome.net>
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:48:35PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:09 -0600 > Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 > > "freezing". There is no diagnostic information, nothing in > > /var/log/messages, nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh > > into the machine and it appears the box ceases to communicate on > > SSH. A couple of times I've had screen corruption on the laptop's > > LCD display. > > > > Every time it hands I'm running Xorg 7.3, Thunderbird, Firefox, > > pidgin, and a bunch of xterms. > > > > Is there something I can do to diagnose this issue? > > > > hi Doug, > My laptops is freezing like this too - no corruption on display though > (this is the 2nd time i write this email, as it just happened <G>). I > am still not sure what the cause is...some things I've used / tried: > > I was using gjournal on my 80 GB /usr partition, with a 1.5 journal > to ad01sh . I was getting quite often lockups where it seemed the disk > subsystem would stall - anything in memory would work, but as soon as > disk access was needed, it'd stall too. Rebooting was not an option, > as the shutdown watchdog would timeout and stop it. > > furthermore, I'd have to go into single user and run fsck > /dev/ad0s1f.journal every time the laptop would crash. I seemed to > have much fewer bad information in the inodes (thanks to the journal), > but I was getting 4 or 6 crashes a day. Since I switched away from > gjournal, these crashes have completely gone away. since this is my > main machine, i cant experiment too much with it. > > I also had skype-1.4 running . One of its processes was spinning > completely out of control , when i wasn't using skype at all (other > than receiving text msgs). I sent an email about it to Multimedia.I've > since switched back to skype.1.2 and that problem is also gone. > > But i still get the occasional lockup. I have a feeling it is related > to using the sound card : > > $ cat /dev/sndstat > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) > Installed devices: > pcm0: <Intel 82801F High Definition Audio Controller> at memory 0xb0000000 irq 11 kld snd_hda [20071020_0048] [MPSAFE] (1p:10v/1r:6v channels duplex default) > > Pretty much everytime I'm getting a lockup, i'm either streaming music > from my music box or on a skype call. Not much to go by, but there > isn't any logs left at all of the crash. It is not a panic (no writing > dump to disk when I press enter, Caps-lock is dead, even the Fn key > which is bound to the bios is dead). What I have noticed in these > cases is that there seems to be a lock up....then, about a minute or > so after it, the mouse seems to come back to life...but then there's > nothing more I can do - i've waited for over 5 minutes after this with > no more results.... > It's quite likely that I have streaming audio/video going on but am using mplayer exclusively. Am also using new HDA controller. -- Regards, Doug
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