More odd behavior with the new PCI code (and, maybe, ata)

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:48:55PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:26:54PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > I have noticed a very odd behavior since the new PCI code went into
> > CVS. I have virtually no real data on the problem and no idea if it's
> > really serious. It's only happened three time, always in single-user
> > mode. 
> > 
> > 1. boot -s
> > 2. <CR> to start sh
> > 3. fsck -p
> > 4. adjkerntz -i
> > 5. swapon -a
> > 6. mount -a -t ufs
> > 7. cd /usr/src
> > 
> > These are the only things I am sure of as common. After this, an attempt
> > to run something will simply hang. In mergemaster I had it happen when I
> > tried to do an edit (e b) in a merge. Another time 'make installworld'
> > hung in 'mktemp'. Interrupting the operation (^C) and restarting does
> > not seem to help, but doing some other operation that accesses the disk
> > seems to clear the problem. (E.g. ls /usr/src).
> 
> FYI I saw this same thing on a recent -CURRENT on a Dell 610.  I booted
> single user, mounted -a (only local UFSs) and make installworld hung
> without doing anything.  I rebooted then shutdown and installed world
> and everything worked.  Sorry I can't be more precise.
> 
Feed /dev/random, this may help.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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