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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: sysctl panic on cold boot
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:28:38AM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> 
> since r247617 my notebook consistently crashes with a page fault when I
> turn it on. If I then reboot from the debugger, the system will boot
> just fine. The last known working revision is r247186. I tried backing
> out r247561 as this last touched kern_sysctl.c, but to no avail. This
> is on amd64.
> 
> As can be seen below, gdb isn't really a big help. Does anyone know
> what's going on?

See the thread started by David Wolfskill, yesterday.  Title
contains "Silent reboots on ..."

> Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/iwn5000fw.ko
> Reading symbols from /boot/modules/nvidia.ko...done.
> Loaded symbols for /boot/modules/nvidia.ko

His problem involved loading nvidia.ko.

-- 
Steve