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Date:      Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:45:05 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Chris Hedley <cbh-freebsd-current@groups.chrishedley.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -CURRENT spontaneously rebooting when using X
Message-ID:  <200601241045.06880.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060124100055.B84257@teapot.cbhnet>
References:  <20060123112629.F79825@teapot.cbhnet> <200601231624.14321.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060124100055.B84257@teapot.cbhnet>

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On Tuesday 24 January 2006 05:03, Chris Hedley wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, John Baldwin wrote:
> > It's a bug, but you can try this workaround:
>
> Unfortunately that caused my system to lock up at (presumably) the same
> point it was crashing before; testing it a couple of times produced the
> same result.  Is there anything you want me to do to try to extract some
> more details from it?

Ah, sorry then.  The bug is that some thread has gone to sleep while holding a 
mutex and now another thread wants that mutex.  Try turning on witness as it 
will tell you when the first thread goes to sleep (the real bug).

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org



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