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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:49:38 +1100
From:      Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com>
To:        Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, manphiz@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Possible missing file in hal installation
Message-ID:  <20070321084938.8d98861f.nick@nickwithers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070320181822.c02595b9.jylefort@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:18:22 +0100
Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:38:38 +1100
> Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:35:24 +0100
> > Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:53:46 +1100
> > > Nick Withers <nick@nickwithers.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Firstly, I've just pasted the existing thread in from
> > > > "http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2007-January/016501.html",
> > > > sorry if I stuffed it up at all and my apologies to those with
> > > > threaded mail clients...
> > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 21:13 +0800, manphiz at gmail.com
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > > > > > No, there is nothing useful here.  The ktrace looks
> > > > > > > good. The last thing hald does is read the PCI config
> > > > > > > registers (part of the initial PCI bus probe).  You
> > > > > > > need to get a full backtrace from hald once it appears
> > > > > > > to lock up.  To do that, you should run hald manually,
> > > > > > > then use gdb to bind to it once it's locked up.  Then
> > > > > > > get a full backtrace.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Joe
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks a lot for the instruction! I attached to the
> > > > > > deadlocked process, and get this backtrace:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (gdb) bt
> > > > > > #0  hf_pci_probe () at hf-pci.c:150
> > > > > > #1  0x0805ced7 in osspec_probe () at osspec.c:96
> > > > > > #2  0x080551dd in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfbfeb5c) at
> > > > > > #hald.c:578
> > > > >
> > > > > This backtrace doesn't make sense.  Line 150 of hf-pci.c is
> > > > > not in hf_pci_probe().  The real line 150 represents a loop
> > > > > that iterates through the devices list.  This list must be
> > > > > finite. I don't see how this problem could occur based on
> > > > > this information.
> > > >
> > > > I appear to be in a similar scenario on my HP Compaq Presario
> > > > B3820 (believe I'm using the latest firmware versions).
> > > >
> >
> > (snip)
> >
> > > > If anyone's got an idea or two up their sleeves about how I
> > > > might go about fixing this, I'd be very grateful to hear
> > > > about it!
> > >
> > > Please install sysutils/pciutils and send me the output of
> > > "lspci -v".
> >
> > With pleasure!
> > ____
> >
> > presario# lspci -v
> > pcilib: Bus 02 seen twice (firmware bug). Ignored.

(snip)

> > ____
> The attached patch should fix the problem. Please test it.

Worked an absolute charm (and how quick was that?!) - thanks very
much Jean-Yves, very much appreciated!

> --
> Jean-Yves Lefort
> 
> jylefort@FreeBSD.org
> http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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