From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 18:45:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0503216A4CF; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5AD43D46; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.70])B9DF3364474; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.164]) [66.133.183.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22767-02-92; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (70-97-221-18.dsl2.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [70.97.221.18])7E048364688; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [165.107.42.217] (unknown [165.107.42.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9443BF358; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:45:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <424AF396.6010909@mykitchentable.net> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:44:38 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Denninger References: <20050329200841.A772@denninger.net> <20050329233843.L328@sasami.jurai.net> <20050329230830.A3222@denninger.net> <20050329234318.A3883@denninger.net> <44027.128.222.32.10.1112202442.squirrel@mail.scadian.net> <20050330113931.A39018@denninger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050330113931.A39018@denninger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Jim Trigg cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: DANGER WILL ROBINSON! SERIOUS problem with current 5.4-PRERELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:24 -0000 On 3/30/2005 9:39 AM Karl Denninger wrote: >On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:07:22PM -0500, Jim Trigg wrote: > > >>On Wed, March 30, 2005 12:43 am, Karl Denninger said: >> >> >>>Here's the diff and some thoughts.... >>> >>> >>[snip, including first diff] >> >> >> >>>241,243c244,249 >>>< >>>< /* if reinit succeeded and retries still permit, reinject request >>>*/ >>>< if (ata_reinit(ch) && request->retries-- > 0 && >>>request->device->param){ >>>--- >>> >>> >>>> /* >>>> * if reinit succeeds, retries still permit and device didn't >>>> * get removed by the reinit, reinject request >>>> */ >>>> if (!ata_reinit(ch) && request->retries-- > 0 >>>> && request->device->param){ >>>> >>>> >>[snip third diff] >> >> >> >>>The second diff is really just a formatting and comment change.. you're >>>certainly correct that the changes are small! :-) >>> >>> >>No, it is not -- it reverses the sense of the first condition. At first >>glance that is what I would expect to be the core of the problem, but I >>don't have appropriate hardware to test on. (It also adds a third >>condition, but that is presumably the intent of the change and should give >>the desired results once the first condition is corrected.) >> >> >> >You're correct of course - I missed the "!". Too darn late at night... > >I've got my sandbox up and the world rebuilt so its consistent with the >machine that's having the problem - will add a SATA disk and see if I can >duplicate this and then figure out what's going on here this afternoon - >and hopefully how to fix it. > > I missed the beginning of this thread and apologize if my question has already been covered. But can you tell me if this issue might be the reason my PC locks up intermittently ? I have whatever cheap card came with a Maxtor 160 GB SATA drive installed in this machine and the PC ran fine with Windows. Now I'm trying install FBSD from the 5.4-BETA ISO I downloaded from the ftp site. The PC runs POST fine and always boots from the CD to the boot menu. After picking the default option 1 (normal boot) the PC locks up anywhere from the dmesg output to sysinstall actually beginning to install the base package after doing the fdisk and disklabel stuff. Should I download 5.3-RELEASE and try installing from that? Thanks, Drew