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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 17:57:59 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_tc.c src/sys/sys timepps.h timetc.h
Message-ID:  <20020502225759.GS53809@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020502153040.B4030@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <200204262151.g3QLp8m26766@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020426205129.A34126@citusc17.usc.edu> <200205020918.17192.dfr@nlsystems.com> <20020502153040.B4030@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 03:30:40PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> I haven't tryed backing the commits out yet, but I'm seeing similar behavior
> on my HP Omnibook 500.  In my case, it's actually not quite hung.  What
> appears to be happening is that nothing is causing the console buffer to
> actually flush.  The system is up (sort of), but the only way to see the
> console output is to cause a kernel printf, say be breaking in to the
> debugger.  The system is basicaly useless at that point and you can't
> shutdown cleanly.

Similar behavior manifests itself on my -current laptop dated
before April 27.  I.O.W. it appears to freeze but will flush the
console if you break to the debugger then hit 'c'.

I believe this was caused by an earlier change to the timecounter
code.  Unfortunately I didn't have time to investigate further.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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