From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 26 14:27:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from netau1.alcanet.com.au (ntp.alcanet.com.au [203.62.196.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949D237B405 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au) Received: from mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au (mfg1.cim.alcatel.com.au [139.188.23.1]) by netau1.alcanet.com.au (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA29859 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:27:43 +1000 (EST) Received: from gsmx07.alcatel.com.au by cim.alcatel.com.au (PMDF V5.2-32 #37641) with ESMTP id <01K7MCJK27IOVFEHU0@cim.alcatel.com.au> for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:27:34 +1000 Received: (from jeremyp@localhost) by gsmx07.alcatel.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f7QLReR24566 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:27:40 +1000 (EST envelope-from jeremyp) Content-return: prohibited Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:27:40 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: 4.4-RC panic In-reply-to: <20010826113806.A21101@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:38:06AM +1000 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20010827072740.D506@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <20010826113806.A21101@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-Aug-26 11:38:06 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: >I've recently acquired a Compaq Armada 1592DT. I installed >4.3-RELEASE on it without problem. I've been trying to upgrade it to >-STABLE (as at ~0600Z on 23rd August) and have run into problems: It >is now consistently panicing in slow_copyout() immediately after >syslogd starts. The problem seems to have started when I added >'options PNPBIOS' to my kernel config (to give me access to the >soundcard). Booting without any PCMCIA cards inserted doesn't make >any difference. Any suggestions? Upon further examination, the 'options PNPBIOS' was a red herring. The real problem was that msgbufp->msg_bufr had become corrupted (I have no idea how) - (*msgbufp) is preserved across reboots, but is inadequately validated. See kern/30112. That leaves a PC card IRQ routing problem... Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message