From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 04:12:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB5516A41F for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 04:12:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (caliban.seekingfire.com [24.72.123.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BE743D60 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2005 04:12:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id ED7F811C; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:12:30 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 22:12:30 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051201041230.GC86598@seekingfire.com> References: <20051120013530.GA55161@nowhere> <20051120042536.E72D816A421@hub.freebsd.org> <20051120153258.GA91689@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051120153258.GA91689@seekingfire.com> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/personal/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers X-Tillman-rules: yes he does User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: Compaq ProLiant 1600 server freezes when detecting keyboard controller 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: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:12:32 -0000 On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:32:58AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 Craig wrote: > > > I've seen this freeze on a couple of 1600s with 6.0-RELEASE. Does this > > > system have multiple processors? If not, try changing the "OS Type" > > > setting in the BIOS to "Other". That fixed it for me. > > It is indeed a single processor system. I used the system utilities to > change the system type to "Other", with no change in behaviour. > > I watched the boot closely this time and noticed that it complains about > too many IRQ 0s and aborts the keyboard controller. I don't have the > exact wording for this -- again, I don't have the serial console set up. > > I'll try the UnixWare setting next, though it's not an SMP kernel. I had > been using the Linux setting, for no particular reason. > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:25:36AM +0000, Bill Paul wrote: > > What you can also try, if the BIOS doesn't support this option, is > > to break to the OK prompt in the boot loader and type: > > > > OK set hw.pci.enable_io_modes="0" > > I tried this next. With this set, it makes it past the keyboard > controller, sc0, sio0, sio1 and vga0. Then the following line appears: > > RTC BIOS diagnostic error 29 > > Timecounter lines then appear, then IPsec, ipfe2, the delay for SCSI > devices to settle, then: > > sym0: unable to abort current chip operation. > sym0: suspicious SCSI data while resetting the BUS. > sym0: dp1, d15-8,dp0,d7-0,rst,req,ack,bsy,sel,atn,msg,c/d,i/o = 0x0, expecting 0x100 > sym0: unable to abort current chip operation. > sym1: suspicious SCSI data while resetting the BUS. > sym1: dp1, d15-8,dp0,d7-0,rst,req,ack,bsy,sel,atn,msg,c/d,i/o = 0x0, expecting 0x100 > > And there it hangs. The Aug 20 kernel doesn't show any SCSI bus errors. The thread seemed to have died out so I thought I'd try to resurrect it -- I'm still unable to use newer kernel builds, and that's making using the pf userland a trifle difficult ;-) What would be helpful information to have to aid in troubleshooting this? Thanks, -T -- "If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place." -- Orison Swett Marden {1850-1924 Founder of Success Magazine}