Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS *SOLVED!*

2007-02-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess the trick here was not considering that user space apps would > be trying to do a kldload, and that calling upon a module that is > either missing in /boot/kernel or /boot/modules or resides outside > of /boot can trigger these panics. That is

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
ED]>; ; Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:36 AM Subject: Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS > > and do a "make deinstall" followed by downloading and compiling the program > > the "old fashioned way" I shoot for a min of 3 years on the OS before even &g

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Joe Auty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kip Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:01

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS *SOLVED!*

2007-02-26 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sort of... Thanks for everybody that has helped me! It turns out I had a couple of rc.d scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that were doing kldloads: rtc.sh and kqemu.sh - one of these was causing the panic. It might be worthwhile adding to the world

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Unfortunately, my /boot/modules is already empty =( On Feb 26, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Kip Macy wrote: It looks like it may be loading an out of sync kernel module. Cleaning out /boot/modules might help. -Kip On 2/26/07, Joe Auty <[EMAIL

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Feb-26 17:38:10 -0500, Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My system does boot off of disc 1 of the FreeBSD 6.2 CD. That's a good start. Together with your memtest results, it suggests that your hardware is OK. > However, >even when copying the /boot directory from the CD to my machin

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Kip Macy
It looks like it may be loading an out of sync kernel module. Cleaning out /boot/modules might help. -Kip On 2/26/07, Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, My system does boot off of disc 1 of the FreeBSD 6.2 CD. However, even w

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, My system does boot off of disc 1 of the FreeBSD 6.2 CD. However, even when copying the /boot directory from the CD to my machine, it still produces the same kernel panic, even when starting in safe mode. I've run a memtest, and it checke

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > For instance, is rebuilding world between point releases (e.g. 5.4 to > > 5.5) an okay idea, compared to across major releases (e.g. 5.5 to 6.2)? For the record, I do a rebuild between point releases - actually, I track -stabl

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Joe Auty
MAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:39 PM Subject: Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 25, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Joe Auty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Joe Auty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Kip Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 10:39 P

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Auty
>; ; Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:14 AM Subject: Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS Any idea how this could have happened after disabling everything in my /etc/loader.conf, and simply running a: make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=myconfig make installkernel KERNCONF=mycon

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Joe Auty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Kip Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:14 AM Subject: Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 25, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Joe Auty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 25, 2007, at 5:46 AM, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 08:59, Kip Macy wrote: It looks as if you've hit a device driver th

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 25, 2007, at 5:46 AM, Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] wrote: On Sunday 25 February 2007 08:59, Kip Macy wrote: It looks as if you've hit a device driver that is trying to print out a null string. The message you've given doesn't provide any more info

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Kip, I'd gladly try a snapshot kernel, but I'm not sure which one to pick out of this list: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/kernels Any suggestions? On Feb 25, 2007, at 2:59 AM, Kip Macy wrote: It looks as if

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 25, 2007, at 3:01 AM, LI Xin wrote: Hi, Joe Auty wrote: This problem does not occur within any 5.x OS for me. I would certainly like to resolve this issue now, but this sort of debugging is over my head beyond running fsck (which I've tr

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]
On Sunday 25 February 2007 08:59, Kip Macy wrote: > It looks as if you've hit a device driver that is trying to print out > a null string. The message you've given doesn't provide any more > information than that. If you install a snapshot kernel it will > probably have ddb compiled in which will a

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread LI Xin
Hi, Joe Auty wrote: > This problem does not occur within any 5.x OS for me. I would certainly > like to resolve this issue now, but this sort of debugging is over my > head beyond running fsck (which I've tried). Any ideas here? Which .ko are you trying to load? try removing them and see if thin

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-25 Thread Kip Macy
It looks as if you've hit a device driver that is trying to print out a null string. The message you've given doesn't provide any more information than that. If you install a snapshot kernel it will probably have ddb compiled in which will allow you to at least get a backtrace. I'm sorry you're ha

kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS

2007-02-24 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, (sorry, don't know whether kernel problems should go to questions or hackers, or both).. This has been a long-standing problem of mine, but I always ignored it hoping it would go away on its own with a future 6.x release, but it remains... No matter whether I boot into safe mode