From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 17:07:37 2010 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 0F7E1106566C; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:07:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anoop.kn@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f171.google.com (mail-iw0-f171.google.com [209.85.223.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72548FC2A; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn1 with SMTP id 1so1577534iwn.27 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:07:36 -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:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Qe9SJfqMyLJSfmr22nzzshzSjxQqKyaoKz/qJCOzxV4=; b=cOB1ilnXzKIAsok8F7FQU0/WPT6qUHWiMjA52UYqsKY6Enst7BHHDZNG0uc1NgdzvY EECO3wRLsgqtmPqC9RtBEM4oTxmEyN1RHtKKChSRf3iNylAUmVu+3ebREa+Nz1RpwqYm ycZ4ggiUzzz3Cw+bJfvh7C7H3G+eUpRz+I4y4= 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=VANrrfvUFAGAzP6aQmCIPBJPm6OPuBdZmNx8h8gI8QzOJGmSGq43gI/6wnve+oFGtx zCuX4lqYFXZImOdTDXAwe15ybp9kd5uZ10k/rFDr7XSwiMkfpZMCRA2hHRUjOSUlFkKa aw3sFu18zkKPQQTEdODttsGnK9ysPaU1e5Xd4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.200.8 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:45:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <9bbcef731003280503q4993e5b4ud8d874b8e9c376a9@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef731003281038x33b8a9atc2a81d22aa26468@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 22:15:00 +0530 Received: by 10.142.55.11 with SMTP id d11mr289524wfa.99.1270745100375; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Anoop Kumar Narayanan To: Masoom Shaikh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random FreeBSD panics 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, 08 Apr 2010 17:07:37 -0000 On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh wro= te: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: >> On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: >> >>> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome >>> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it >>> result in reasonable performance penalty. >> >> Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is. >> Try adding "options =A0 =A0 PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=3D128" to the kernel >> configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled >> log outout. >> > > ok, after few days of silence I am back with more questions > this time system feels little better, it is able to sustain for more > time that what 7.3-RELEASE could > > FreeBSD raptor 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Apr =A01 > 01:20:45 UTC 2010 =A0 =A0 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON =A0amd64 > > I am using KDE4, and when OS freezes, well it freezes, means I cannot > change to tty0 and see the panic text, if any it might possibly have > spit. the stuck frozen GUI keeps staring there. So the question is how > to I capture that panic text ? unfortunately I am not getting core > files too, so there is nothing I can pick up hints > > is there some option (KDB, DDB), so that on panic system drop to debugger= ? > > Masoom Shaikh I am having the very same problem, with my AMD64 running i386 (both 7.3-REL and 8.0-REL) keeps crashing, The best part is, if I disable ACPI it crashes before it even boots up so is the case with safe-mode and single-user-mode. With ACPI it boots up but crashes after a while. I have the vmcore files on the system. Who do I contact on this regard ? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >