Regression 7.0R -> 7-stable?

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:19:40AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:47:06PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:29:47PM +0200, Gerrit K?hn wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > 
> > > I have a rather new FujitsuSiemens Esprimo here with an AMD Phenom X3
> > > processor (triple core is somehow strange :-) and a lot of NVidia stuff
> > > onboard. I installed 7.0-R, which ran quite well except for the bge driver
> > > and snd_hda which both complained.
> > > After putting in an extra networking card I was able to install some more
> > > software and all appeared to be nice. Then I cvsupped to the recent
> > > 7-stable as of today. My hope was that maybe the bge or the sound card
> > > would improve from this. However, the new kernel I compiled does not run
> > > at all. It boots up to CPU#1 and CPU#2 lauchned messages and then sits
> > > there and does nothing anymore. I have verified this behaviour with amd64
> > > snapshot images from July and August to make sure I did not compile a bad
> > > kernel. Both show the same behaviour.
> > > Are there any ideas what has changed from 7.0-R to recent 7.0-stable that
> > > could cause this? What can I do to debug/fix this?
> > 
> > Make sure you have this in your /etc/sysctl.conf:
> > 
> >     [~] edwin at k7>grep hyper /etc/sysctl.conf 
> >     machdep.hyperthreading_allowed=1
> > 
> > Then with top you can see the CPUs in use ----------v
> > 
> >   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> > 69200 edwin         9  44    0   236M   130M ucond  0  33:37  5.76% seamonkey-b
> >  3317 edwin         1  71    0 38404K 33572K select 1   3:51  0.10% mutt
> >  3015 edwin         1  45    0   403M 81672K select 0 101:52  0.00% Xorg
> 
> I think you misread what he was saying.  :-)  He's saying that his
> system locks up hard after the kernel prints the "SMP: AP CPU #x
> Launched!" messages.

It's indeed a different interpretation of what I originally read.
Sorry for the noise!

Edwin

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