Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:43:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <qa@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.5-PRE panic in vfs_cache with softupdates, via chipset Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0201100839450.95631-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020110001717.A92381@tisys.org>
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Nils Holland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:03:09PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson stood up and spoke: > > > > I was running buildworld, with /usr/src and /usr/obj on seperate > > partitions, both with softupdates on. I have the problematic VIA > > southbridge. I was building world, then suspended it (ctrl-z) before > > suspending the laptop with 'apm -z'. Later, woke it up, and about 20 > > seconds later resumed the build. Two or three more files were compiled > > before the kernel panic occured. > > Welcome to the club ;-) > > Now, I'm no kernel expert either, but I wonder if you can reproduce your > problem. If it's similar to mine, you should be able exactly what you did > when the panic occured, and in about two out of three cases the problem > should be there again. No - I think that it's irregular. It's only happened twice, once while running buildworld, and once whlie running grep on /usr/src/sys. I certanly cannot make it panic on command. > If I had more money on my bank account right now, I'd probably simply > replace my mainboard with an unaffected one (either no VIA chipset or one > of the latest VIA things) and send my current one to Soren for further > investigation. I guess that if he'd see how strange it performs, he'd throw > it out of the window after a short period of time, and that's what I almost > did for about 20 times so far ;-) heh. sadly this is a brand new laptop... Thanks, Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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