From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 18:18:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E173B37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:18:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 34571 invoked by uid 100); 31 Aug 2001 01:15:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15246.58659.233418.330611@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:15:15 -0500 To: Hajimu UMEMOTO Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freezes in 4.4RC on SMP Kernel and gkrellm In-Reply-To: <20010830.235043.28861473.ume@mahoroba.org> References: <15245.51106.120852.616240@guru.mired.org> <20010830.222356.125820097.ume@mahoroba.org> <15246.19717.31335.194978@guru.mired.org> <20010830.235043.28861473.ume@mahoroba.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hajimu UMEMOTO types: > >>>>> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:26:13 -0500 > >>>>> Mike Meyer said: > mwm> Well, if I leave gkrellm off, the system doesn't freeze. I'm not sure > mwm> what the exact cause is, but it seems to be related to > mwm> plugins. > What plugins are you using? Did you try disabling plugin from Plugin > tab? Volume plugin, gkrellscore and gkrellweather. I have Moon Clock installed, but have never left it running. If I don't leave any of them running, it doesn't normally freeze. Even if I leave the sensor module enabled and running. > > mwm> I've installed gkrellm WITHOUT_SENSOR=yes - which sgid instead of suid > > mwm> - and enabled all the things that I had on when the system was > > mwm> freezing before, except the sensors. > > I'll turn sensor support off by default for workaround. > mwm> I'm not sure that solves the problem. I still got freezes when > mwm> installing it WITHOUT_SENSOR=yes. > Really? I think GKrellM cannot access /dev/smb* nor /dev/io in this > case. Correct. BTW, I did change the sensors code to open these these files read-only. I know the /dev/io code works that way - I'm using it now - and healthd opens /dev/smb* read-only, so I presume that works. I also caught gkrellscore doing a fetch at startup - even though I had it disabled - including a running perl with read/write access to /dev/io. So I turned on close-on-exec on the things as well. Those things don't solve the problem, but seems like a good idea in general. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message