Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:27:40 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-RC panic Message-ID: <20010827072740.D506@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010826113806.A21101@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>; from peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:38:06AM %2B1000 References: <20010826113806.A21101@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On 2001-Aug-26 11:38:06 +1000, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> wrote: >I've recently acquired a Compaq Armada 1592DT. I installed >4.3-RELEASE on it without problem. I've been trying to upgrade it to >-STABLE (as at ~0600Z on 23rd August) and have run into problems: It >is now consistently panicing in slow_copyout() immediately after >syslogd starts. The problem seems to have started when I added >'options PNPBIOS' to my kernel config (to give me access to the >soundcard). Booting without any PCMCIA cards inserted doesn't make >any difference. Any suggestions? Upon further examination, the 'options PNPBIOS' was a red herring. The real problem was that msgbufp->msg_bufr had become corrupted (I have no idea how) - (*msgbufp) is preserved across reboots, but is inadequately validated. See kern/30112. That leaves a PC card IRQ routing problem... Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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