Sporadic 9.0-RC2 boot-time panic

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 29 20:54:13 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:27:43 pm Mike Andrews wrote:
> On 11/29/2011 10:50 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Monday, November 28, 2011 5:37:27 pm Mike Andrews wrote:
> >> *Sometimes* when booting 9.0-RC2 on *some* of my machines, I'll get one of
> >> the following two panics during multiuser startup, usually while running
> >> the /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts.  (The instruction pointer is always
> >> exactly one of these two, and they look fairly related.)  If after two or
> >> three reboots it manages to not panic, the system will run perfectly
> >> stable.
> >>
> >> For some probably-unrelated reason, the dump never finishes in either case.
> >>
> >> First panic (note em0 warning before it):
> >> -----
> >> em0: discard frame w/o packet header
> > This is odd.  I see one bug that could possibly trigger this, but not on
> > x86:
> 
> This is amd64, which of course depending on what you meant by "not on 
> x86" may or may not be the same thing ;-)

x86 == (amd64 | i386) :)

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John Baldwin


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