Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:52:12 -0500 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Lester Igo" <igo@vtic.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stable not so Stable? Message-ID: <00b101c14bb6$8d449e20$11fd2fd8@westbend.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109301949310.803-100000@confusion>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] From: "Lester Igo" <igo@vtic.net> > I am having crashing problems with FreeBSD-stable. > > 2. Then I had to reboot on Sat Sept 29th because "some buffers" were not > emptying correctly. The symptom would basically be that the last litle > bit of output would not show up until more data was transfered, (for > example prompts would not show up until I started typing the next command, > "screen"s would finish drawing 3/4 of the way through the screen, etc) > > > So, I decided to udpate -stable again and get 1 week newer to see if the > problems were fixed... > > Since then, I haven't been able to get more than about 6 hours of > uptime between crashes... I have had a mixture of "hard hangs" (have to > kill power to reboot), and reboots with no error messages. > > > Any ideas on the problems I have been seeing? Are there known issues, > if so any timelines to have them fixed in? > > I am going to be remote this week, so I am supping back to 4.4 release > (I was at 4.4 RC before this and all was happy) to help keep things stable > while I am not close by to reboot. > > > What is my system? > > GigaByte GA-586DX w/Dual P166MMX cpus and Adaptec aic7880 on board. > Two Intel PCI EtherExpressPro (fxp) cards. > We have the same motherboard, GA-586DX w/Dual P200 non-MMX cpus, on board Adaptec aic7880, and on EtherExpress Pro (fxp) card, and only experienced crashes on our build system since updating it from 4.3-STABLE to 4.4-RC and several 4.4-STABLE builds, updating our other GA-586DX systems with 4.4-STABLE, that was compiled on the build system resulted in no crashes on these systems. We suspect a misconfigured BIOS setting caused the crashes (PNP BIOS set to AUTO instead of MANUAL). We CVSupped to a 4.4-STABLE as of Sep 28th, and installed the updated binaries on the build system Oct 1st. So far it hasn't crashed since changing the PNP BIOS setting to MANUAL. Scot [-- Attachment #2 --] # # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386 # # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on # Kernel Configuration Files: # # http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html # # The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook # if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the # FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the # latest information. # # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the # device lines is also present in the ./LINT configuration file. If you are # in doubt as to the purpose or necessity of a line, check first in LINT. # # $FreeBSD: src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC,v 1.246.2.35 2001/09/27 17:43:06 alfred Exp $ machine i386 cpu I586_CPU ident WBI-SMP maxusers 128 #makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols options MATH_EMULATE #Support for x87 emulation options INET #InterNETworking options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols options IPSEC options IPSEC_ESP options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options UFS_DIRHASH options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device options NFS #Network Filesystem options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as root device, NFS required options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev options PERFMON # Performance monitoring # To make an SMP kernel, the next two are needed options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel options APIC_IO # Symmetric (APIC) I/O device isa device eisa device pci # Floppy drives device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 device fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 # # If you have a Toshiba Libretto with its Y-E Data PCMCIA floppy, # don't use the above line for fdc0 but the following one: #device fdc0 # ATA and ATAPI devices device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives device atapist # ATAPI tape drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering # SCSI Controllers device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices # SCSI peripherals device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da # Direct Access (disks) device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd # CD device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access) # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12 options VESA options VGA_WIDTH90 device vga0 at isa? # splash screen/screen saver pseudo-device splash # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 # Floating point support - do not disable. device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13 # Power management support (see LINT for more options) device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management # Serial (COM) ports device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3 device sio2 at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5 device sio3 at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9 # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device plip # TCP/IP over parallel device ppi # Parallel port interface device #device vpo # Requires scbus and da # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! device miibus # MII bus support device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate. pseudo-device loop # Network loopback pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support pseudo-device sl 1 # Kernel SLIP pseudo-device ppp 1 # Kernel PPP pseudo-device tun # Packet tunnel. pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) pseudo-device md # Memory "disks" pseudo-device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling pseudo-device faith 1 # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation) # The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter
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