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Date:      Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:00:49 -0800
From:      "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
To:        Bernhard Valenti <bernhard.valenti@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: weird problem with athlon on -stable
Message-ID:  <20001222000049.Q24087@beastie.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <000501c06bff$c2d279a0$0200000a@cipher>; from Bernhard Valenti on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:12:59AM -0800
References:  <000501c06bff$c2d279a0$0200000a@cipher>

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On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:12:59AM -0800, Bernhard Valenti wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i'm experiencing some weird problem...
> 
> when 4.2 was in beta i setup a athlon 500(asus board), and copied the
> freebsd installation from my primary machine ( dual celeron ) to the athlons
> disk. i had to build a single CPU kernel on the athlon cause the smp kernel
> did abort during boot. so i went into single user(with kernel.GENERIC),
> built a new kernel, and booted it. 2-3 seconds after printing the login
> prompt, the box crashed *every*( i tried ~10 times) time i booted
> normally(no unusual message during boot,no panic, but it stoped responding
> to the keyboard/network). but it worked perfectly fine in single user mode..
> i spent ~2 hours in single user mode with manually started services and
> network. i think i even ran a make world.. anyway.. i couldnt find the
> problem so i went and installed 4.1.1-release from cd. everything worked
> fine after that, even after updating to 4.2
> 
> today, i bought a athlon 1Ghz+abit board(different chipset then the asus),
> replaced the dual celeron with it, and have exactly the same problem. is a
> world built on a smp incompatible with single cpu systems !?(i doubt that)
> maybe its that i choose i686 as cpu type, but why does "single user" work
> fine then?
> 
> is there something i'm missing ? i'd be glad to hear any ideas..

In addition to starting services manually in single user mode, did
you set any sysctl's that might also get set in the rc scripts?  For
example, if you have gateway_enable="YES" in rc.conf, then the command
"sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1" is run in rc.network.  You might
grep for "sysctl" in /etc/rc* to see if there are any sysctl's that
need checking.  Also, are there any kernel modules that get loaded as
a result of your rc.conf settings?

Good luck,
-brian

> 
> bernhard
> 
> 
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