Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:17:36 -0800 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Instant reboot on new interface coming up Message-ID: <20051110081736.GA1855@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <43724C11.5090201@centtech.com> References: <43724C11.5090201@centtech.com>
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On 2005-11-09 13:20, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote: > I've been having issues lately when trying to bring up a new interface. > It's a hard problem to actually see, because it makes my machine > instantly reboot. > > Here's what I see: > Normally, I use ath0 for wireless, and occasionally I use em0. > Recently, when I was at a location with no wireless and no dhcp support, > I powered up my laptop, plugged in to em0, and did an ifconfig em0 xxx. > After a few seconds, the system spontaneously reboots. I figured > out that killing dhclient on that interface before attempting to > manually configure it helped. > > Now, I also tried to connect using ppp to a GPRS network (via bluetooth > through my cell phone). This used to work just fine, probably a few > months ago. This time, I killed all dhclients, connected the bluetooth > pieces, and then ran rfcomm_pppd, which creates a tun0 interface. When > the interface was created, and brought up without dhclient, everything > worked ok. When I accidentally left dhclient running, and tun0 was > created, when the device got it's IP address, machine rebooted. > > I have various machine logs/dmesg/etc here: > http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/ > (labeled by date - look for the most current versions) > > I'm running 7.0-CURRENT as of a few days ago. How many days? You need at least a version that includes the following commit, otherwise you may have problems with ACPI or mbuf allocation: % glebius 2005-11-06 16:47:59 UTC % % FreeBSD src repository % % Modified files: % sys/kern kern_mbuf.c % Log: % Fix panic string in last revision. % % Revision Changes Path % 1.15 +1 -1 src/sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c
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