FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE boot freeze

Bjorn Hellqvist bjornh at pvp.se
Tue Sep 29 07:22:00 UTC 2009


On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, kama wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>
> > on 28/09/2009 10:21 kama said the following:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > >
> > >> on 25/09/2009 12:04 kama said the following:
> > >>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, kama wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I am currently building the source on another machine. Lets see if it will
> > >>>> build it any better.
> > >>> Building the the world on another machine and install it on the DL385
> > >>> machine made it also to freeze.
> > >> Did you still get the message about unresolved symbol?
> > >
> > > I did not try with ACPI_DEBUG enabled.
> > >
> > > Another week, so I can start testing again...
> >
> > I did not ask that :-)
> > I asked -  when you got your latest freeze, did you see that 'unresolved'
> > message or not?
>
> But that only appears when I enable ACPI_DEBUG.


And yes. It stills gets the same undefined symbols. (I presume its these
you are referring to...)

# dmesg | grep -i acpi
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi.ko" at 0xc0ed31d8.
link_elf: symbol AcpiDmDumpMethodInfo undefined
KLD file acpi.ko - could not finalize loading

# nm -A /boot/kernel/* | fgrep AcpiDmDumpMethodInfo
/boot/kernel/acpi.ko:         U AcpiDmDumpMethodInfo
/boot/kernel/acpi.ko.symbols:         U AcpiDmDumpMethodInfo
nm: /boot/kernel/linker.hints: File format not recognized

# uname -a
FreeBSD g24.gs.pvp.se 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 28
13:39:01 CEST 2009     root at s11.gs.pvp.se:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ddb  i386

# diff -ub /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC  /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ddb
--- /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC      2009-07-15 10:32:19.000000000
+0200
+++ /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ddb  2009-09-28 13:25:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@
 options        AUDIT                   # Security event auditing
 #options       KDTRACE_HOOKS           # Kernel DTrace hooks

+options                KDB
+options                DDB
+options         ACPI_DEBUG
+
 # To make an SMP kernel, the next two lines are needed
 options        SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
 device         apic                    # I/O APIC
#


Its too bad that I cant get into the debugger. The server gets
unresponsive when the freeze occurs. Is there any other option that I can
add so it goes to the debugger?

/Bjorn


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