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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:38:34 -0700
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.9 stability update
Message-ID:  <1063993114.721.7.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <20030919135417.GA14988@pir.net>
References:  <3F6A98F3.7080801@freebsd.org>  <20030919135417.GA14988@pir.net>

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On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 06:54, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> probably said:
> > We'd like to get a new poll on the stability and readiness of 4.9.  The
> > belief is that the last of the PAE-induced instability was resolved on
> > August 31.  Is anyone still experiencing unusual crashes, corruption,
> > etc, on a system that is running with up-to-date sources?
> 
> All my desktop -STABLE machines seem to be happy.
> 
> My laptop, not so much. I posted about some of it's issues a couple of
> days ago and then re-cvsuped and cleaned out all the locations of
> compiled kernel code and /usr/obj to make double sure I was running
> with consistant and up to date code. Now I'm waiting to see if it
> crashes again (usually takes a few days to panic).
> 
> I can switch from X to a vty without panicing the machine now, but
> sometimes (particularly if Mozilla is running) switching to a text vty
> will kill XF86;
> 
>   Error in I830WaitLpRing(), now is 119653913, start is 119651912
>   pgetbl_ctl: 0x3ff60001 pgetbl_err: 0x19
>   ipeir: 0 iphdr: 0
>   LP ring tail: 12560 head: 0 len: 0 start 0
>   eir: 0 esr: 10 emr: ffff
>   instdone: ffc0 instpm: 0
>   memmode: 108 instps: 0
>   hwstam: ffff ier: 0 imr: ffff iir: 0
>   space: 55960 wanted 131064
>  
>   Fatal server error:
>   lockup
> 
> 
>   xdm error (pid 193): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1

I would recommend trying the XFree86-4-Server-snap port to see if
updates to the i830 driver have fixed that issue.  If it still occurs,
you would want to submit that to http://bugs.xfree86.org/

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org




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