From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 24 14:18:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07A4C16A407 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:18:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B98A43D46 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:17:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391EA46DD9; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:18:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:18:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Dominic Marks In-Reply-To: <20061124092027.a310a6e1.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> Message-ID: <20061124141736.F90666@fledge.watson.org> References: <20061121165151.0dd0956c.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <20061124040223.9AA9A45054@ptavv.es.net> <20061124092027.a310a6e1.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2-PRE panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:18:23 -0000 On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Dominic Marks wrote: >> It happened again last night (at almost exactly midnight). Several failures >> seem to have coincided with crontab jobs and I have never had the system >> crash while I was logged on the the system directly. Either I was logged in >> over the net or was not logged in at all. > > Different experience from me. With a fresh kernel and the gnome daemons > running I had an instant reboot, no core dump. Turning of polkitd and hald > makes it go away reliably though. > > I intend to turn one of them back on to see if I can narrow it down further. > >> Due to the holiday (in the US), is did not have an opportunity to do >> anything other then reboot it. I hope to have time to connect a laptop to >> the console so I can record everything that happens to submit. >> >> This si clearly not a common problem. What hardware do you have? Mine is an >> Athlon64-4400+ on an MSI mobo with 1GB of RAM. Is there an open PR on this problem currently? I'm in the process of reviewing my outstanding network PRs for 6.2 and I'm having trouble tracking down all the pieces of this report. Thanks, Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge