Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:35:37 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: random(4) related panic: sleeping without a mutex Message-ID: <200404120935.i3C9ZcIn084537@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:59:55 %2B0200." <20040412085955.GB798@zaphod.nitro.dk>
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"Simon L. Nielsen" writes: > > Could you please try the enclosed patch? > > It fixes the panic, but now it just hangs after init. Fix panic is good (fix committed). Hang is bad. :-( > I tried to boot both my working kernel (Apr 4) and the new one in single > user mode. The sysctl output for kern.random looks interesting since > the old one was seeded, and the new one isn't: You aren't harvesting any entropy; any reason for that? > kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 0 > kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 0 > kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 0 > kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 0 > Since it doesn't harvest I guess it's not that strange that it isn't > seeded, but since it worked before something must have changed. Yeah. Part of the startup does a "kickstart" of the device by writing garbage to it. I wonder why it didn't do that this time. Is your /etc/rc* completely up to date? What is in your rc.conf? M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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