kern/65801: 5.2.1 locks up with SMP kernel

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR kern/65801; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Russell Francis <rf358197 at ohio.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/65801: 5.2.1 locks up with SMP kernel
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 21:27:09 -0700

 On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 06:44:38PM -0700, Russell Francis wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 > The machine which is a dual PIII "locks up" after a day or so when it is compiled with an SMP kernel.  I have been unable to duplicate this with a UP kernel.  When I say lock up, the following things occur.
 > 
 > - Screen goes black.
 > 
 > - Keyboard becomes unresponsive [Numlock/capslock] don't toggle lights on the keyboard.
 > 
 > - The machine becomes unpingable and ssh into the machine no longer works.
 
 The machine is probably either panicking, or deadlocking due a locking
 error.  Enable WITNESS, DDB, INVARIANTS and kernel crashdumping, and
 try to obtain debugging information.  Leaving the machine out of X
 Windows may also help, because you'll see the panic message on the
 system console.  See the Developer's Handbook and for more details.
 
 Kris