Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread fredthetree
i've only used the generic 6.0 kernel # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol ps_pglobal_lookup] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2005-Dec-14 08:28:26 -0400, fredthetree wrote: i've only used the generic 6.0 kernel # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.1 ... #6 0xc07f6dca in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:139 #7 0xc0a7cf08 in ?? () Unfortunately, it's frame 7 and below that is crucial. Was #7

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-14 Thread Atanas
Peter Jeremy said the following on 12/13/05 02:00: Note that PS/2 keyboards aren't hot-pluggable and attempts to do so can have deleterious effects on your keyboard and/or motherboard. In any case, the probe/attach sequence relies on the kernel being in a reasonably sane state (and I'm not

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Atanas
Atanas said the following on 12/12/05 18:57: Peter Jeremy said the following on 12/12/05 13:40: When it hangs, break into DDB (Ctrl-Alt-Esc on the console or BREAK on a serial console). But if I have no keyboard response I won't be able to save it, right? (replying to myself) This is

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2005-Dec-12 18:57:24 -0800, Atanas wrote: When I plug a keyboard, there's no response at all - no LEDs, no VTYs, Ctrl-Alt-Esc, etc. You might think of hint.atkbd.0.flags not being set properly, but it's right (i.e. unchanged, it appears to default to that on i386 5.x+) and other machines

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread fredthetree
On 12/13/05, fredthetree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/12/05, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-Dec-12 22:21:52 -0400, fredthetree wrote: I just wanted to chime in and say I've had my 6.0-RELEASE #0 freeze up twice in the past few days. never once had it happen with

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Atanas wrote: Atanas said the following on 12/12/05 18:57: Peter Jeremy said the following on 12/12/05 13:40: When it hangs, break into DDB (Ctrl-Alt-Esc on the console or BREAK on a serial console). But if I have no keyboard response I won't be able to save it,

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, 2005-Dec-13 13:43:13 -0400, fredthetree wrote: [/var/crash/vmcore.1] -- Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x10 That's a NULL pointer de-reference - it Shouldn't

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Claus Guttesen
The load I'm talking about is less than moderate (less that 2.0 with plenty of CPU idle time). The freezing thing also does not appear to happen at peak times (I have rrdtool based CPU load graphs). Both machines have (almost) identical motherboards: Intel SE7520JR2SCSID2 and SE7520JR2ATAD2

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Ronald Klop
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:15:55 +0100, Atanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have 3 machines running 6.0-RELEASE, and recently 2 of them started freezing once a day or so. There are no error messages on the console or in the system logs. What happens if you set one of these sysctl values to 0?

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2005-Dec-12 13:15:55 -0800, Atanas wrote: I have 3 machines running 6.0-RELEASE, and recently 2 of them started freezing once a day or so. There are no error messages on the console or in the system logs. The first one I put in production about a month ago and it was working flawlessly

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
Claus Guttesen said the following on 12/12/05 13:23: Both machines boot with ACPI and hyperthreading enabled. Try to disable HTT in bios. I think that I already achieved that by simply disabling the acpi module from device.hints, and it had no effect to the problem. It seldom gives you

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
Ronald Klop said the following on 12/12/05 13:27: What happens if you set one of these sysctl values to 0? (This disables SMP changes from 5.4 to 6.0.) debug.mpsafevfs: 1 debug.mpsafenet: 1 debug.mpsafevm: 1 Thanks for the suggestion! I just did so and rebooted both machines, so we'll see.

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread fredthetree
I just wanted to chime in and say I've had my 6.0-RELEASE #0 freeze up twice in the past few days. never once had it happen with 5.x. everything locks, no keyboard response, no mouse, and after several minutes it reboots itself, and savecore starts up during boot.. and again, it's not during

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
Peter Jeremy said the following on 12/12/05 13:40: Define freezing: Does it respond to pings? Can you switch VTYs? Do the num-lock/caps-lock LEDs respond? Do some processes seem to freeze before others? I used the word freeze instead of crash, because the latter often gets associated with

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Mon, 2005-Dec-12 22:21:52 -0400, fredthetree wrote: I just wanted to chime in and say I've had my 6.0-RELEASE #0 freeze up twice in the past few days. never once had it happen with 5.x. everything locks, no keyboard response, no mouse, and after several minutes it reboots itself, and savecore

Re: 6.0 random freezes

2005-12-12 Thread Atanas
Atanas said the following on 12/12/05 15:43: Ronald Klop said the following on 12/12/05 13:27: What happens if you set one of these sysctl values to 0? (This disables SMP changes from 5.4 to 6.0.) debug.mpsafevfs: 1 debug.mpsafenet: 1 debug.mpsafevm: 1 Thanks for the suggestion! I just