Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 13:53:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: Urgent! splash screen bug lives (Was: today's 3.3-RC crashes on boot) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909031347260.61142-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909031027250.58188-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com>
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Unfortunately I think I can state conclusively now that it's the
splash screen bug, and not flaky hardware doing the damage here. I
followed exactly the same steps I did yesterday doing an install on a box
with similar hardware (PIII 550 instead of a PIII 450), but this time I
rebooted between each step. As soon as I compiled a custom kernel without
the pseudo-device splash it started crashing on boot. When I put that
pseudo-device back in it was all good. Next I put yesterday's box back up
on the rack, recompiled the kernel with the splash, and now it's working
perfectly.
Anyone wanting to test this should try recompiling their kernel
without that option and rebooting numerous times (at least 20).
Unfortunately it's still not reproducable every time, but I'm very
confident that the problem is related to that option.
HTH,
Doug
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Doug wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909021834320.51838-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com> Doug writes:
> > : I say (?) because I strongly suspect that this is flaky
> > : hardware, however after spending the afternoon installing freebsd
> > : 3.2-Stable from 9/24, then upgrading via cvsup to the most recent 3.3-RC
> >
> > I found that a 19990818 snapshot would cause almost identical dumps
> > like the following on a regular basis.
> >
> > : Boxes are Rack-mounts, Intel N440BX mb's with onboard Intel
> > : etherexpress. This one has 128M of ram, 450 Mhz PII and a 16G IDE HD.
> >
> > I was seeing this on a mini 486DX2 that I bought to turn into a router
> > and a dumpster (machine with tape drive and little else to do network
> > backups).
>
> I just love having a consensus. One vote for "Yes, it's hardware"
> and one for "Maybe it's software." *chuckle* The night guys took the box
> down and reseated everything, still no joy. One detail I forgot to mention
> last night was that I left the pseudo-device splash line out of the
> kernel config file since TMK that bug was fixed.
>
> Doug
>
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