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From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>
To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: sysctl panic on cold boot
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 06:00:01AM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 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.

Thanks. I will try booting without nvidia. FWIW, my X and the nvidia
driver are working just fine if the system managed to boot.

Stefan