[Bug 298197] nvme: Heavy load to SSD causes 16.0-CURRENT to crash without a core dump
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:13:16 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=298197
Bug ID: 298197
Summary: nvme: Heavy load to SSD causes 16.0-CURRENT to crash
without a core dump
Product: Base System
Version: 16.0-CURRENT
Hardware: amd64
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: bugzilla-hh@itspecialty.com
Overview:
Heavy I/O on internal SSD for Apple Intel Macmini(2018) causes the system to
crash without producing a core dump.
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Install latest 16.0-CURRENT using zfs as the filesystem.
2) Attempt to install latest RUST toolchain from
https://rust-lang.org/tools/install/
3) Accept defaults for installation.
Actual Results:
The system powers off after a short while. Before powering off, the following
message(s)
gets printed to the display (if attached):
nvme0: Resetting controller due to a timeout and fatal error status.
nvme0: event="start"
nvme0: Waiting for reset to complete
nvme0: Waiting for reset to complete
nvme0: Waiting for reset to complete
nvme0: Waiting for reset to complete
nvme0: Waiting for reset to complete
Expected Results:
RUST installation toolchain to be completed.
Build Date & Hardware:
Build FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-amd64-20260831-9bec8a959bd6-288738 on Apple Intel
Mac Mini(Macmini8,1) (64GB memory, 512GB of storage, 10Gbe networking)
Additional Information:
Since the system crashes without dumping core or writing anything to logs, the
only way I found to see what was happening was to attach a monitor directly to
the machine.
The "Waiting for reset to complete" message repeats about 28 times (roughly 1
per second) before the system powers off.
This crash can also be caused by running `zpool scrub zroot`. The system was
able to install just fine and I could install pkgs using the pkg tool.
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