From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 01:59:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DB916A41B for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:59:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from ms-smtp-04.rdc-kc.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.166.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68EA313C4F7 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 01:59:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from corinth.polands.org (CPE-75-87-219-217.new.res.rr.com [75.87.219.217]) by ms-smtp-04.rdc-kc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA61xDRw011838; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from ammon.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by corinth.polands.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA61xGAf003982; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@polands.org) Received: from ammon.polands.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ammon.polands.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lA61xG2v056429; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp@ammon.polands.org) Received: (from djp@localhost) by ammon.polands.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id lA61xGDY056428; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from djp) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:59:16 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: Norberto Meijome Message-ID: <20071106015916.GC56023@polands.org> References: <472F7BE9.8080807@polands.org> <20071106124835.694b48ef@meijome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071106124835.694b48ef@meijome.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/4677/Mon Nov 5 18:12:39 2007 on corinth.polands.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:59:30 -0000 On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 12:48:35PM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:24:09 -0600 > Doug Poland 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 ). 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: 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