From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 00:09:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5C3106564A for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:09:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C21408FC13 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:09:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so306235ewy.43 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:09:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GbP0fPedvsOpM2+Mbyy3kLSH25ZMiBwFUDN0tKVV8Wo=; b=sarrfxrWyPjrLu8St6SM/N3XEbvmGV8+DmJuugF2IF1H+wr7Bhm9B4BhTMC7pCicHO 8Vc+wFYa0GbJH1ymJ1YBJcaYTs9vhyBCRf5OqNtLJuhCNmOxNFF8Fp7rmWr7TacrzC7I NPOAbq7F1xCXAo4J1HhADNPp/fVXlfaKubQAY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=i1U33jTOEiAwM64B9ghK3Udi5ubEcCixwsNXFn3HDeOQXYYGfVTer0w0Ofq/JT3JQJ q/VSuMU5/oFgTsYosygOZqLVRgMmUKWa4VcGF9RnQ8Oy4qzwLC7dwhnJN5aqpljYlJy0 FRpfDYuZclztBVhP99DJ1x/yGQ95NTf3Czz0g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.35.5 with SMTP id i5mr143046ebi.34.1238026187271; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:09:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49CAA7AB.8030506@reiteration.net> References: <49CAA7AB.8030506@reiteration.net> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:09:47 +0100 Message-ID: <3a142e750903251709q1fdb39cfkb1b0276644c3c825@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: John Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: malo causes sig 12 error and panic on Freebsd 7.2-PRERELEASE (7-STABLE) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:09:50 -0000 On 3/25/09, John wrote: > Hi list > > I configured the malo device as per the manpage. Now I'm getting panic > after the device is probed as per > http://www.growveg.org/desktop/DSC_6973-3008.jpg > > Is there a parameter I can pass to boot that will ignore this > driver/module? I have tried disable-module to no avail. Is the only > option to use the rescue disk? I need loader.conf to be ignored now in > order to get the system up at all. Under loader prompt type "unload", and than "load kernel" with required modules one by one and type "boot" at end. This will not work if malo is part of kernel itself. > Is malo known to work under 7-STABLE? I notice the man page says it > first appeared under FreeBSD 8.0. backtrace from textdump can help debugging crash, but use "kldload if_malo" after boot so that dumping can actually work, in other words use loader.conf only when you know that driver is actually stable/working. -- Paul