Freeze during portupgrade

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 21:41 +0300, Ilias Marinos wrote:
> Hello people,
> 
> Using, 
> FreeBSD redrum.liakusbay.priv 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5 r194685: Tue
> Jun 23 12:21:32 EEST 2009
> root at redrum.liakusbay.priv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> I am experiencing a system freeze everytime I try to portupgrade, at the same
> part.You can find the error here:
> http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~marinosi/crash.jpg
> (Apologies for the quality of the photo). Unfortunately, I am unable to
> provide a backtrace as the db console is freezed (no interaction at all). The
> only thing I am doing is hard reset and then fsck to recover the highly
> corrupted filesystem.

If you have a non-USB keyboard you might find that you can get a
backtrace:  the necessary code for using keyboards with interrupts
disabled hasn't yet been written under the new USB stack (I have no idea
when it will be done, but it's listed as being necessary for 8.0 to be
released on http://wiki.freebsd.org/USBTODO).

Anyway, you may well have luck using ddb scripting to save traces, see
the ddb(8) manpage.  Without a trace, this may be hard to debug.

Thanks,

Gavin


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