Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:49:12 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE Message-ID: <200802122249.m1CMnChV006501@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:16:59 +0100 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
wrote:
>Scott Bennett wrote:
>
>> It does it every time, so it is certainly repeatable. Is this a
>> known problem? Or is there some feature of GELI-encrypted file systems
>> that is expected to have problems running scripts? (I do not know whether
>> the problem is limited to /bin/csh scripts. After several crashes in just
>> a few minutes, I decided I had had enough of that for one night.)
>> If anyone has seen this happen before, please let me know.
>
>This is absolutely not a common problem, and it's unlikely that the
>shell script is the direct cause of the reboots. Are there any messages
>written on the console juse before the reboots? Are the reboots actually
None.
>kernel panics? If so, you'll need to track down the messages and report
>them
>(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html),
The kernel panics I've seen in the past all hung the system cold and
required powering it down in order to reboot it. The current situation
involves a pause of one or two seconds, followed by a black screen, then
the Dell startup splash screen, and then the screen displayed by my boot
manager, offering a choice of Windows XP or FreeBSD. It's all very fast.
I'm not at all sure that a final sync(2) is even done.
>if not, it's maybe a hardware problem. Is there something unusual about
>your hardware?
>
I don't think so. It's a Dell Inspiron XPS w/1 GB of memory, a
Mobility Radeon 9800 card, and several devices attached to USB ports.
The CPU is a 3.4 GHz P4 w/HT enabled in chipset, BIOS, and kernel.
There is also a Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS PCMCIA card in the slot. There
is no software support for 3D acceleration on the graphics card and no
software support for the sound card. There is a builtin sound setup for
which there does seem to be some limited software support.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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