Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:35:58 -0400 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.0-RC1 crash on G5 (late 2005) Message-ID: <CAHSQbTBixODkDo94GRcUeG9LRDuKew5=uNAJ%2BcHDp=DJ7aBW_g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111030230008.68c63841@narn.knownspace> References: <CAHSQbTBdgOJ4L7-6oX1F7-C=gOKb0Yi2hC9JVJgm5vVycxjQXQ@mail.gmail.com> <4EAA052D.5010106@freebsd.org> <20111030230008.68c63841@narn.knownspace>
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:28:13 -0500 > Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On 10/27/11 20:26, Justin Hibbits wrote: > > > I don't know the conditions of the crash, but sometime after > > > booting, can happen right away, or later, my G5 just stops. No > > > kernel panic, no messages, it just stops. The red light in the > > > case comes on, and it just sits there. > > > > > > Hardware: Late 2005 model G5, Dual-core 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. > > > > > > Anything else I can provide, just ask. Can't provide a coredump, > > > dmesg, or anything else like that, though (machine just dies). > > > > > > > Is this a 32 or a 64-bit kernel? I have the same model, with a 64-bit > > kernel, as my primary desktop, and have never seen anything like this. > > -Nathan > > To add yet another data point, I tried booting a snapshot from last > year (2010-11-17), and that also had the same problem, but only when > booted into a full production mode. When booted from CD, it worked > just fine. Should I even bother trying a ppc32 install? I know I'd > lose out on 2GB of the RAM. > > - Justin For a test, I installed Linux (debian testing, kernel 3.0.0), and it BUG'd with an error "soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 23s!". This may be similar to what's going on with FreeBSD. Is there a way to disable SMP at bootup, so that it doesn't use the second core (man pages aren't helping)? - Justin
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