From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 26 21:37:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 686BE37B423 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10593 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2000 06:37:20 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-4-193.bb.tninet.se (HELO marbsd.tninet.se) (62.5.4.193) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 27 Sep 2000 06:37:20 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands To: Neil Hoggarth , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: init: /bin/sh terminates abnormally in /etc/rc Qlogic problem? profiling timer expired Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:34:12 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Matt Groener References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00092706352000.02419@marbsd.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Neil Hoggarth wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, I wrote: > > > I still have the problem, and I haven't had a chance to properly > > explore it. I had a quick poke around with the web interface to the > > CVS repository, and it appeared to me that the Qlogic driver itself > > hasn't changed since 4.1-RELEASE, and I'm running 4.1-RELEASE okay > > (well, sort of - I'm having X11 problems that I didn't have with > > 3.4-RELEASE, but I don't know that this is related to the profiling > > timer thing). > > I think that I take that back. Profiling timer problems *do* appear to be > present in my 4.1-RELEASE installation, though they are not anything like > as severe as in 4-STABLE of 23rd August (where they are bad enough to > prevent the system coming up multiuser). > > The 4.1-RELEASE system boots and fscks its filesystems okay, but some > things do still die, aparently at random, with signal 27 (SIGPROF); most > notably the XFree86 3.3.6 server for my Matrox G200 graphics card. I also > had a "make installworld" fail with a "Profiling timer expired" error (a > subsequent attempt to installworld worked). > > A couple of questions: > > 1) Can anyone explain to me what the "profiling timer" is, and under what > circumstances the kernel delivers SIGPROF to processes (or give me a > push/pointer in the right direction)? > > 2) I'd be interested to know if anybody out there is using the isp driver > successfully in 4-STABLE? > > Regards, > > Neil. hhhm cvsupped last night to 4.1.1- stable -----seems to be ok These are just my opinions you are free to disagree please do so quietly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message