From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 14 4:23:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hcshh.hcs.de (hcshh.hcs.de [194.123.40.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B29037C6F5 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 04:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hm@hcs.de) Received: from hcswork.hcs.de([192.76.124.5]) (1755 bytes) by hcshh.hcs.de via sendmail with P:smtp/R:inet_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:22:58 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.104 1998-Nov-20 #1 built 1998-Dec-11) Received: by hcswork.hcs.de (Postfix, from userid 200) id 2B700483B; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:22:54 +0200 (METDST) Subject: Re: config/hints changes: panic booting pcvt kernel In-Reply-To: <200007140448.VAA59078@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Jul 13, 0 09:48:06 pm" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 13:22:54 +0200 (METDST) Cc: hm@hcs.de, current@freebsd.org Reply-To: hm@hcs.de Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 869 Message-Id: <20000714112254.2B700483B@hcswork.hcs.de> From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From the keyboard of John Polstra: > > i added a printf statement to the beginning of every subroutine in > > file /sys/dev/kbd/kbd.c and with this additions the panic disappears > > and pcvt runs fine as ever. > > > > Removing the printf's from kbd.c shows the usual described panic. > > > > I'm now completely out of ideas .... > > It sounds like maybe an uninitialized local variable in one of the > functions. This should cause a warning from the compiler, shouldn't it ? All the files in question compile without any warning at all. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis Tel +49 40 55 97 47-70 HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH Fax +49 40 55 97 47-77 Oldesloer Strasse 97-99 Mail hm [at] hcs.de D-22457 Hamburg WWW http://www.hcs.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message