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

2007-02-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
: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 thinking about updating, and when it's time to update the hardware has generally reached

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

2007-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
@freebsd.org; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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

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

2007-02-26 Thread Joe Auty
: 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] To: Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc

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 -stable on

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

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

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 machine,

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 *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

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

2007-02-26 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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

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

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 things

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

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

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

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

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

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]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:14 AM Subject: Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS Any

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

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Auty
@freebsd.org 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=myconfig