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Date:      Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:47:11 -0700
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: r270287: crash
Message-ID:  <CAGHfRMBESJuuWqwEqvSCgZjW1eXbUqvaFnQLjKAQGyWh144ciw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D87D8356-7D66-4696-AA0E-F4DFDD41C0A3@gmail.com>
References:  <20140821212619.6bdffad0@munin.walstatt.dyndns.org> <D87D8356-7D66-4696-AA0E-F4DFDD41C0A3@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:32 PM,  <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2014, at 12:26 PM, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> w=
rote:
>
>> FreeBSD r270287 crashes/reboots instantanously on loading the kernel. I
>> can not see at what point (on modern systems like Ivy Bridge). On older
>> Core2Duo systems I get a trap 12 in APIC or similar.
>>
>> While I was able to start kernel.old on the modern systems, I fail on
>> both kernel and kernel.old on the C2D system.
>>
>> I'd like to know whether there is a way to save the system I can not
>> reboot the on-disk kernels snce they are, woderfull, compromised.
>>
>> Is there a possible scenario  like:
>>
>> a) boot from DVD ROM or USB most recent snapshot
>> b) establish network with on-disk config, svn checkout recent sources
>> into on-disk file hierarchy
>> c) build repaired/patched kernel and install on on-disk (not on the
>> emergency boot media).
>
> I would grab a snapshot ISO or USB disk image: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/=
FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/ . After that you can mount y=
our filesystems, revert to an earlier SVN revision, and repair your system =
that way. You could also copy over the  /boot/kernel as long as you didn=E2=
=80=99t have/need any customizations.
>
>> Thanks, help appreciated and what is about this crash affecting recent
>> CURRENT r270287, what has corrupted the system?
>
> That=E2=80=99s a better question. Booting off newer sources worked on my =
VM at least, but it=E2=80=99s not real hardware. Maybe something dealing wi=
th vt(4)/xen?

    One important note is that my CURRENT VM on my Macbook runs i386, not a=
md64.
Cheers,
-Garrett



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