From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 18 16:57:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE2A1065670 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B4178FC17 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail-gw6.york.ac.uk (mail-gw6.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.26]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n0IGvbmx017836; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:37 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw6.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1LOaxt-0006Vs-TX; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:37 +0000 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0IGvbdt016279; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:37 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n0IGvb6F016276; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:37 GMT (envelope-from gavin@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Andrew Lankford In-Reply-To: <49734D0B.8050604@charter.net> Message-ID: <20090118165632.O24894@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <49729D80.8010506@charter.net> <20090118093346.GA9819@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <49734D0B.8050604@charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin@freebsd.org Cc: peterjeremy@optushome.com.au, stable@FreeBSD.org, Luigi Rizzo , xxjack12xx@gmail.com Subject: Re: System borked: loader stack overflow. 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: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:57:44 -0000 On Sun, 18 Jan 2009, Andrew Lankford wrote: > I can't say what version of the loader it is that I'm using, but (following > Peter's advice, thanks), I've tried loader.old (about a week old) and the > latest loader (built yesterday), and both start. Where each loader has a > problem appears to be reading (include-ing?) /boot/default/loader.conf . The > spinner spins for a longer time than usual, and then the loader gives up with > the stack overflow. Fortunately, I still got a prompt and am able to load > the latest kernel acpi and a what few other modules I need to boot > successfully and reply to your emails. Hmm, there's also a new PR in (kern/130674) which sounds like the same issue, on -HEAD. Gavin