umass causes panic on 7 amd64

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Thursday, April 17, 2008 18:06:28 +0300 Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> 
wrote:

> on 17/04/2008 17:56 Paul Schmehl said the following:
>>
>> I wish I had a core file to analyze.  *Every* time I reboot my machine, I
>> have  to disconnect my usb drive.  Then I have to remount it after I'm back
>> up and  running.  If I leave it connected during the reboot, I get the same
>> kind of  errors that were posted by Steve.  After the system is up and
>> running, umass is  detected normally and I can mount and use the drive with
>> no problems.  I'm on  i386, so it doesn't look like an AMD-specific problem.
>>
>> # uname -a
>> FreeBSD utd65257.utdallas.edu 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #6: Wed Apr 16
>> 17:14:28 CDT 2008     utd65257.utdallas.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>> i386
>>
>> I've rebuilt kernel and world six times in the hopes that recent src updates
>> would fix the problem.
>>
>> Unfortunately, since the error occurs during boot, I know of no way to
>> capture  the error message.  If I log console would that do it?  I doubt the
>> console is  logging at that point.  I don't think syslogd is even running
>> yet.
>>
>
> Eh I think I saw something like this myself.
> Do you by a chance have that new device sg in your kernel?
> I assume you do (GENERIC) - try to drop it.
> I am not sure if this is some brokenness of that driver or fighting of
> several USB drivers over the same hardware.
>
> P.S. sorry for the wide broadcast, but I think that users on all 3 lists
> might be interested.

This is all I have in my GENERIC conf file:

# grep -i sg /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
options         SYSVMSG                 # SYSV-style message queues

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/