problems with -current

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 05:04 pm, Mark Atkinson wrote:
> Rainer Alves wrote:
> > On 11/29/05, Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net> wrote:
> >>dear hackers,
> >>
> >>after cvsup'ing recent current (as of yesterday evening pst) and
> >>building/installing new kernel/world i started having problems:
> >>
> >>problem 1: startx simply reboots my laptop. i can see x coming up, then
> >>after just a few seconds my laptop reboots. no window manager, no
> >>nothing. my laptop is a dell with some radeon video card. will provide
> >>more details on request.
> >>
> >>problem 2: when system is booted and filesystem is not clean fsck is
> >>started and checks all dirty filesystems. then boot process continues as
> >>usual, however root filesystem is still mounted read-only, i.e.
> >>
> >>--->  /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only)  <---
> >>devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
> >>/dev/ad0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> >>/dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> >>/dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
> >>linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)
> >>devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local)
> >>
> >>so, anyone sees this as well or its just me.
> >>
> >>thanks,
> >>max
> >
> > Same thing here.. it's probably related to the huge DRM changes
> > commited yesterday by anholt at .
> > I'll try to enable some debugging stuff and see what's going on...
>
> I just cvsup'd to 2005.11.28.23.00.00, rebuilt and reinstalled, which
> should be just before the commit:
>
> anholt      2005-11-28 23:13:57 UTC
>
> and starting X still reboots my machine.  I'm reverting the kernel now
> to 8am UTC from the 28th, and if that still fails I'm going back about 7
> to 10 days.
>
> -Mark

Hook up a serial console so you can see the panic message.  Make sure kdb/ddb, 
etc. are in your kernel so you can get a trace.

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