Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 6.1 with Dell PE1850 / 1750

[Jorn Argelo]

Mike wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got a handful of Dell PE1850 and PE1750 boxes running mail 
> scanning that we recently upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1.
>
> It started with a new PE1850 (mx4) that we immediately installed 6.1
> on, which started having kernel panics- we initially blamed it
> on hardware. But last week, we rebuild a PE1750 (mx6) we've been
> running for over a year with FBSD 4.11 without any problems,
> and it's crashing now as well.
>
> Are there any known issues with FreeBSD 6.1 on any of the Dell
> PE series machines?
>
> Any thoughts would be great,
>
> Mike
>
>
> Some details:
>
> PE1850
> --snip--
>
> FreeBSD mx4 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 15 18:55:30 PDT 2006
> mike at build.office:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U_GENERIC_SMP  i386
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
> fault virtual address	= 0x5c
> fault code		= supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer	= 0x20:0xc072dbda
> stack pointer		= 0x28:0xea9b9a98
> frame pointer		= 0x28:0xea9b9b28
> code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> 			= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process		= 20764 (exim-4.60-1)
> trap number		= 12
> panic: page fault
> cpuid = 0
> Uptime: 10d13h1m4s
> Dumping 3071 MB (2 chunks)
>   chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok
>   chunk 1: 3071MB (786112 pages) 3055 3039 3823 3007 2991
>
> --snip--
>
>
> PE1750
> --snip--
>
> FreeBSD mx6 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Mon May 15 18:55:30 PDT 2006
> mike at build.office:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/U_GENERIC_SMP  i386
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 2; apic id = 06
> fault virtual address	= 0x5c
> fault code		= supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer	= 0x20:0xc072dbda
> stack pointer		= 0x28:0xf2791a98
> frame pointer		= 0x28:0xf2791b28
> code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> 			= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process		= 60007 (exim-4.60-1)
> trap number		= 12
> panic: page fault
> cpuid = 2
> Uptime: 2d16h44m0s
> Dumping 3071 MB (2 chunks)
>   chunk 0: 1MB (159 pages) ... ok
>   chunk 1: 3071MB (786135 pages) 3055 3039
>
> --snip--
>
>
>
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I am running 6.1-STABLE on a Dell PE 1850 very smoothly actually. The 
machine is rock-solid and a constant load of 5-10. Can you give me a 
dmesg output? Maybe the hardware isn't identical to the setup we have, 
or maybe something isn't right in your kernel config.

Jorn

Jorn