6-STABLE locks solid - current ok, why?

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 24 July 2006 16:46, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> The 5300 have a battery backed up cache, I guess I should try to run the 
> box off the 5i to check.
> 
> Have several 360/380 G1/2/3's here too and never saw this before.
> 
> I did:
> * Installed hw; iLO card + one Intel em0 + the 5300
> * Booted 6.1-REL CD, installed base system including ports tree and sources
> * pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
> * fetched 6-STABLE sources
> * Edit the kernel config (took out 486/586, added SMP/APIC)
> * rebuilt and installed world (I usually do this a few times over to 
> check for hardware problems)
> * Installed postfix, that worked ok.
> * Next app (don't remeber which one sorry) hung the box
> * fetched 6-STABLE sources again
> * rebuilt and installed world, worked fine
> * tried again to complie apps, no joy. Hangs at random places, no error 
> messages, just locks.
> * fetched 6-STABLE sources again
> * rebuilt and installed world, worked fine
> 
> and finally,
> 
> fetched -CURRENT, rebuilt and now everything is just great. ACPI is enabled.
> 
> Reason I'm running -STABE is that I expect this one to go into 
> production about the time 6.2 is released.

When it hangs, can you break into ddb and get a coredump?  (Break into
the debugger and use 'panic' at the db> prompt.)  You'll need DDB and
KDB in your kernel config.

-- 
John Baldwin