From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 7:35:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1AE14D93 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 07:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id PAA08445; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:32:53 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id QAA18610; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:30:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA22587; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:18:41 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id QAA02444; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:22:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <37553F96.C27309CE@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:28:38 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin Quinlan (UK)" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel crashes using FreeBSD 3.1 References: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------F83DAEA399A88FA83F0D9500" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F83DAEA399A88FA83F0D9500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, This is really strange : I've used cvsup since 2.2.6 and I've never seen such a bug. It may be a subtle hardwar fault on your machine. Can you "make buildworld" on this machine ? This is a most stressful operation, so if the compile goes to its end, you'll be sure your hardware is sane. HTH / TfH :"Kevin Quinlan (UK)" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a machine, a totally standard Dell Poweredge 2200 on which I am > running FreeBSD 3.1 RELEASE. > > When I run cvsup, the kernel crashes with a trap 12. > > Now I see from the various mailing list archives that a number of people > have reported similar problems, but I have not seen any mention of a fix. > > One problem that I have of course, is that I am not getting updated source > files, as it is cvsup that is crashing. > > I would surmise that there is a malloc probem in cvsup, when trussing the > process I get a lot of > "truss in free(): warning: page is already free." but I would not expect > this to crash the kernel. > > I can reproduce the problem on a generic kernel. > > But my questions are these: > > Are there any identifiable kernel fixes for this type of problem that I can > apply? Or do I have to upgrade to 3.2? > > I should explain that it is only cvsup so far that tickles this bug, but > this is only 1 of a number of machines I am building, and although the > others are stable so far, so was this one before I started running cvsup, so > upgrading with so much work in progress is not quite a painless option. > There was one suggestion in the mailing list to sidegrade to 2.2.8. > Unfortunately this is an unsatisfactory solution in this case, as I need > some features of the 3,x system on the other machines. > > I can supply stack pointer and crash information if required, but it seems > that the problem has been seen on a number of occasions, although not > particularly with cvsup as far as I can tell. > > Any information appreciated. > > Thanks > > Kevin Quinlan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------F83DAEA399A88FA83F0D9500 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="thierry.herbelot.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Thierry Herbelot Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="thierry.herbelot.vcf" begin:vcard n:Herbelot;Thierry tel;work:(+33) 1 46 52 47 23 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot org:CIT Nanterre adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr x-mozilla-cpt:;-22032 fn:Thierry Herbelot end:vcard --------------F83DAEA399A88FA83F0D9500-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message