Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-08 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan
anoop...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
 On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:

 lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome
 this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it
 result in reasonable performance penalty.

 Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is.
 Try adding options     PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 to the kernel
 configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled
 log outout.


 ok, after few days of silence I am back with more questions
 this time system feels little better, it is able to sustain for more
 time that what 7.3-RELEASE could

 FreeBSD raptor 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Apr  1
 01:20:45 UTC 2010     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON  amd64

 I am using KDE4, and when OS freezes, well it freezes, means I cannot
 change to tty0 and see the panic text, if any it might possibly have
 spit. the stuck frozen GUI keeps staring there. So the question is how
 to I capture that panic text ? unfortunately I am not getting core
 files too, so there is nothing I can pick up hints

 is there some option (KDB, DDB), so that on panic system drop to debugger ?

 Masoom Shaikh

 I am having the very same problem, with my AMD64 running i386 (both
 7.3-REL and 8.0-REL) keeps crashing, The best part is, if I disable
 ACPI it crashes before it even boots up so is the case with safe-mode
 and single-user-mode. With ACPI it boots up but crashes after a while.
 I have the vmcore files on the system. Who do I contact on this regard
 ?

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can u load that file in kgdb in get backtrace ?
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Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-03 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
 On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:

 lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome
 this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it
 result in reasonable performance penalty.

 Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is.
 Try adding options     PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 to the kernel
 configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled
 log outout.


ok, after few days of silence I am back with more questions
this time system feels little better, it is able to sustain for more
time that what 7.3-RELEASE could

FreeBSD raptor 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Apr  1
01:20:45 UTC 2010 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON  amd64

I am using KDE4, and when OS freezes, well it freezes, means I cannot
change to tty0 and see the panic text, if any it might possibly have
spit. the stuck frozen GUI keeps staring there. So the question is how
to I capture that panic text ? unfortunately I am not getting core
files too, so there is nothing I can pick up hints

is there some option (KDB, DDB), so that on panic system drop to debugger ?

Masoom Shaikh
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Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
 On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:

 lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome
 this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it
 result in reasonable performance penalty.

 Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is.
 Try adding options     PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128 to the kernel

this option is already there

 configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled
 log outout.

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random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
Hello List,

I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since
then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard
boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :(

Many times I get vmcore files, not always. I have dumpdev set to AUTO in my
rc.conf. Almost every time it just fsck's the file-system on reboot. I have
not lost any files though. This is a Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop with 1GB ram,
Intel Core2 Duo T5500 with ATI Radeon X1400 card. The installation in
question is KDE4 from ports, with radeon/ati driver.

I felt the problem is with wpi driver, then suspected dri driver of X. Then
I observed system freezes even if none of this is installed. e.g. if it is
under some load, like building a port and simultaneously fetching something
over network it hangs, and hangs hard. This persuaded me to think something
is wrong in kernel scheduling itself. May be it is lost in some deadlock,
etc... Thus last weekend I thought I would see how immediate previous
version i.e. FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE would behave.

I reinstalled FreeBSD7.1 from iso images, svn up'ed FreeBSD7.3 source, did
the normal buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld cycle.
Unfortunatly this kernel is naughty as well ;-), it also freezes with same
stubbornness. But difference is this time I happen to catch something
interesting.

It panics on NMI, fatal trap 19 while in kernel mode. Loaded the vmcore file
in kgdb and got the backtrace. I obtained vmcore files on two occasions. I
have attached both the back traces. This error most likely suggests hardware
error in RAM, but Windox7 and XP boot just fine and never caused any errors.

To verify if I have errors in my RAM I let run sysutils/memtest86+
overnight, to double verify I also executed Windows Memory Diagnostic test
for four times. None of them reported errors. Can anyone here suggest any
solution.

Masoom Shaikh


vmcore0.log
Description: Binary data


vmcore1.log
Description: Binary data
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Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
 Masoom Shaikh wrote:

 Hello List,

 I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since
 then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard
 boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :(

 I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages?

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umm, how do I do that ?
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Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
 On 28 March 2010 13:18, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote:
 Masoom Shaikh wrote:

 Hello List,

 I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since
 then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard
 boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :(

 I wild shot - did you try disabling superpages?

 umm, how do I do that ?

 Set

 vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=0

 in /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Report back if it helps or not.


nopes, this didn't help too, machine freezed again after using for 30
minutes or so
all it was doing is playing amarok, fetching sources from svn repos,
and using firefox

lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome
this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it
result in reasonable performance penalty.
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