From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 17:58:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB92E106568C for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:58:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlay@fsu.edu) Received: from ms13.ucs.fsu.edu (ms13.ucs.fsu.edu [146.201.3.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E698FC20 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailrelay2.fsu.edu (mailrelay2.fsu.edu [128.186.6.39]) by ms13.ucs.fsu.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7QHwscs001001 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:58:55 -0400 Received: from smtp1.fsu.edu (smtp1.fsu.edu [128.186.6.57]) by mailrelay2.fsu.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7QHwsmh008253 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:58:54 -0400 Received: from [144.174.6.42] (winscs14.sc.fsu.edu [144.174.6.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp1.fsu.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC7A2138314 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:58:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4A957673.1040704@fsu.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:52:51 -0400 From: Nathan Lay User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4A9571EB.7090209@fsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A9571EB.7090209@fsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5, 1.2.40, 4.0.166 definitions=2009-08-26_08:2009-08-11, 2009-08-26, 2009-08-26 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0907200000 definitions=main-0908260134 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:09:20 +0000 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8 BETA3 unusable (kbd/syscons?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:58:56 -0000 Nathan Lay wrote: > Hi list, > I can't seem to do anything with FreeBSD 8 BETA3. Whenever I try to > do anything from a syscons terminal (ttyv#) the system freezes and > requires a hard reboot. The longest run I got was last night for > about 10 hours while doing a portupgrade (X is not an option until > then) before it froze. Today, I saw it panic for the first time. It > stopped at kbd_enter and kbd_why, but I didn't have savecore turned on > to provide more detail. I've also seen it freeze in what appeared to > be due to mouse movement and syscons savers but I can't verify this > because the system does not panic, it freezes hard. I'll try to > reproduce this but it almost always freezes rather than panic. I had > another laptop do this to me in earlier -CURRENT revisions and > disregarded it as possible failing hardware. But both laptops ran > FreeBSD 7 and very early -CURRENT without these instabilities. I've > attached uname, dmesg, my kernel config and rc.conf for any clues. I > will try my best to reproduce the panic and post my findings. > > Nate > > Oh yes, I forgot to mention, I seem to have no problems in single-user-mode. The freeze-up always occurs in multi-user-mode. I might just run portupgrade in single user mode. Best Regards, Nathan Lay