CURRENT freezes on Laitude D520

[Maxim Konovalov]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, 20:51-0000, Robert Watson wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Maxim Konovalov wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, 16:48+0100, yal wrote:
> >
> > > Last kernel compilation working was on november 27th. Dell Latitude D520
> > > freezes within a few minutes after boot. No errors are show in dmesg. The
> > > internal speaker sounds and acpi stops working.
> >
> > Try with
> >
> > debug.mpsafenet="0"
> >
> > in /boot/loader.conf.  I have similar symptoms with my with my sony
> > pcg505bx.  Please report back your experience.
[...]

> Do you have any information about the actual source of this problem?

No, I don't.  The whole system is unstable.  E.g. ifconfig hangs at
the random time.  Wireless stops working, mouse is lagging.  Suddenly
the whole system just hangs.

yal@ replied in the private email debug.mpsafenet="0" did help him
too.

> Would it motivate solving the problem if I were to remove the
> debug.mpsafenet tunable?
> :-)

I didn't suggest to turn off mpsafenet forever and forget, I just
wanted to check my guess.  I would like to help to debug the problem
but I need some initial instructions to start.  There is a firewire
console.  What do I need to check?

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Maxim Konovalov