Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-23 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 02:50:36AM -0800, Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Either CPU hardware or software bug, fine. You're claiming to know > > the bug and possible fix, but don't want to publish it, fine. > > I do not object to publication of code that embodies a workaroun > to the

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: > You got me wrong. I'm user and do not know and don't want to know > about any CPU architecture and bugs. But I've got problems and > simply trying to provide any data possible to gather by myself. > Either CPU hardware or software bug, fine. You're claiming to know > the bug

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-23 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 03:25:15PM -0800, Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have now definitive answer for _my_ case and environment. Just > > finished full package build for my workstation bundle port (92 > > ports), including XFree-4, KDE3, mozilla-devel and whatnot. It all > > went

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Scott Sipe wrote: > I didn't make a backup copy (or mark down the errors) of the bad file or try > rebooting which in retrospect would have been a good idea..sorry--I just > fixed the file and saved it so I could compile some ports--and that worked. Just FWIW: if it was a transfer error, a backup

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-23 Thread Scott Sipe
On Saturday 23 November 2002 02:38 am, Terry Lambert wrote: > Scott Sipe wrote: > > Alright, this is pretty frustrating. I've installed DP2 4 or 5 times now > > (each time reformatting). > > > > The first time the installation program acted really weird and didn't do > > the install correctly. > >

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Scott Sipe wrote: > Alright, this is pretty frustrating. I've installed DP2 4 or 5 times now > (each time reformatting). > > The first time the installation program acted really weird and didn't do the > install correctly. Not useful information, but expected, based on your other reports. Most p

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Sipe
Alright, this is pretty frustrating. I've installed DP2 4 or 5 times now (each time reformatting). The first time the installation program acted really weird and didn't do the install correctly. The second time I had weird random core dump problems so that I couldn't even log in. The third

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Scott Sipe wrote: > It was a trap 12, and definitely that address...I think something more > overarching must be going on though. I'm able to login with /bin/sh (not > csh/tcsh) and so I've been trying various things--I can't compile a kernel > because I get bus errors, same with many ports I've b

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Vallo Kallaste wrote: > I have now definitive answer for _my_ case and environment. Just > finished full package build for my workstation bundle port (92 > ports), including XFree-4, KDE3, mozilla-devel and whatnot. It all > went very well running kernel which had: > > DISABLE_PSE enabled > DI

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > >> > Is it any help to know that my problems on P4 stopped after enabling > >> > DISABLE_PSE? Initially I had both of these enabled, but seems that > >> > one is enough. Just FYI. > >> > >> If we can verify that DISABLE_PG_G has no effect then that would be > >> nice. > > > >

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Nov-2002 Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:57:42AM -0500, John Baldwin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > It has an effect: writing CR3 or a TSS resulting in a changed CR3 >> > will not invalidate TLB entries with the G flag set, if PGE is set >> > in CR4. >> >> I know wh

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > On Friday 22 November 2002 10:57 am, you wrote: >> On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: >> > On Thursday 21 November 2002 04:26 pm, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> Erm, well, PSE and PGE are already disabled in GENERIC on DP2. Hmm. >> >> Can you try doing gdb -k kernel.de

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Sipe
On Friday 22 November 2002 10:57 am, you wrote: > On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > > On Thursday 21 November 2002 04:26 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Erm, well, PSE and PGE are already disabled in GENERIC on DP2. Hmm. > >> Can you try doing gdb -k kernel.debug in multiuser under DEBUG and > >> se

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:57:42AM -0500, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It has an effect: writing CR3 or a TSS resulting in a changed CR3 > > will not invalidate TLB entries with the G flag set, if PGE is set > > in CR4. > > I know what PG_G does, Terry. My question is that if DISA

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> > Is it any help to know that my problems on P4 stopped after enabling >> > DISABLE_PSE? Initially I had both of these enabled, but seems that >> > one is enough. Just FYI. >> >> If we can verify that DISABLE_PG_G has no effect then tha

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> > It's the PSE and PGE, John. Are you sure you won't agree to >> > not disclose, so I can tell you what's happening? >> > >> > Bosko has a patch which he will give you if you ask him for it >> > that (mostly) works around the problem. >

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > On Thursday 21 November 2002 04:26 pm, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> Erm, well, PSE and PGE are already disabled in GENERIC on DP2. Hmm. >> Can you try doing gdb -k kernel.debug in multiuser under DEBUG and >> see if gdb behaves any better? Another idea might be to

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > > Is it any help to know that my problems on P4 stopped after enabling > > DISABLE_PSE? Initially I had both of these enabled, but seems that > > one is enough. Just FYI. > > If we can verify that DISABLE_PG_G has no effect then that would be > nice. It has an effect: writin

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > > It's the PSE and PGE, John. Are you sure you won't agree to > > not disclose, so I can tell you what's happening? > > > > Bosko has a patch which he will give you if you ask him for it > > that (mostly) works around the problem. > > DP2 shipped with DISABLE_PSE and DISABLE

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Scott Sipe
On Thursday 21 November 2002 04:26 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > > Erm, well, PSE and PGE are already disabled in GENERIC on DP2. Hmm. > Can you try doing gdb -k kernel.debug in multiuser under DEBUG and > see if gdb behaves any better? Another idea might be to use addr2line > instead like so: > > ad

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:58 pm, John Baldwin wrote: >> On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: >> > On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:36 pm, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> Hmm, is this from a GENERIC kernel? >> > >> > This is from straight from DP2 iso image cd install,

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Scott Sipe
On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:58 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > > On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:36 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Hmm, is this from a GENERIC kernel? > > > > This is from straight from DP2 iso image cd install, X-Developer install, > > first boot afte

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Nov-2002 Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:03:48PM -0500, John Baldwin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > It's the PSE and PGE, John. Are you sure you won't agree to >> > not disclose, so I can tell you what's happening? >> > >> > Bosko has a patch which he will give you

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:03:48PM -0500, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's the PSE and PGE, John. Are you sure you won't agree to > > not disclose, so I can tell you what's happening? > > > > Bosko has a patch which he will give you if you ask him for it > > that (mostly) works a

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Nov-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: >> On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: >> > On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:36 pm, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> Hmm, is this from a GENERIC kernel? >> > >> > This is from straight from DP2 iso image cd install, X-Developer install, >> > first boo

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Terry Lambert
John Baldwin wrote: > On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > > On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:36 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > >> Hmm, is this from a GENERIC kernel? > > > > This is from straight from DP2 iso image cd install, X-Developer install, > > first boot after the install finished, generic kernel

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:36 pm, John Baldwin wrote: >> Hmm, is this from a GENERIC kernel? > > This is from straight from DP2 iso image cd install, X-Developer install, > first boot after the install finished, generic kernel etc. Ok, generic kernel is t

Re: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread Scott Sipe
On Thursday 21 November 2002 01:36 pm, John Baldwin wrote: > Hmm, is this from a GENERIC kernel? This is from straight from DP2 iso image cd install, X-Developer install, first boot after the install finished, generic kernel etc. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

RE: DP2 Fatal Trap

2002-11-21 Thread John Baldwin
On 21-Nov-2002 Scott Sipe wrote: > > First install of DP2 went crazy weird (posted earlier). A minimal install > (just the minimal distribution) went fine and I could login but didn't really > try anything more than that. Now the install went fine, the boot goes fine > (no errors that I can