I bet if you did some slicing of -head versions, you'll find an earlier version that doesn't do that. :-)
ADrian On 20 November 2010 15:38, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/19/10 10:30, Larry Maloney wrote: >> Does your motherboard have a hardware watchdog timer? > > Not one which is accessible from within a DomU. :-) > > It seems that this bug is related somehow to the idle thread sleeping -- when > I comment out the call to idle_block from cpu_idle_hlt in i386/machdep.c the > stalling goes away. > >> On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 06:42 -0800, Colin Percival wrote: >>> I'm seeing a weird bug here, and I'm wondering if anyone else has >>> experienced >>> this and/or has any clue how to fix it. >>> >>> During the boot process, in the middle of running rc.d scripts, my >>> FreeBSD/Xen >>> instance stalls. It does nothing until I send a shutdown signal, at which >>> point >>>> [XEN] hypervisor wallclock nudged; nudging TOD. >>> and a couple buffered lines of rc.d script output are printed. From there >>> the >>> rc.shutdown script starts running, but it too stalls after a short time; >>> then I >>> see >>>> [XEN] hypervisor wallclock nudged; nudging TOD. >>>> Nov 19 14:08:33 init: timeout expired for /bin/sh on /etc/rc.shutdown: >>>> Interrupted system call; going to single user mode >>> printed, suggesting that the shutdown watchdog timer at least managed to >>> not get >>> stuck even though everything else did. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve > Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly > paranoid > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-xen To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
