panic in 8-CURRENT

韓家標 Bill Hacker askbill at conducive.net
Sun Oct 14 22:24:24 PDT 2007


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 韓家標 Bill Hacker wrote:
>> Hiroki Sato wrote:
>>> I got the following panic with the Oct 14 8-CURRENT kernel.  A 2-way
>>> (Opteron) box running GENERIC FreeBSD/i386 kernel with serial console
>>> access, and typing some keys just after "Trying to mount..." line
>>> appears seems to prevent this panic.  Without typing any keys the box
>>> remain stopped after displaying the line, and then typing a key will
>>> cause this panic.  Whether the panic occurs depends on the time
>>> between displaying the line and typing a key.
>>>
>>
>> *snip*
>>
>> ..serial console...
>>
>> Things to check:
>>
>> Are you set to headless all the time? Or does that change during the 
>> bootup?
>>
>> What of /etc/ttys?
>>
>> Thinking that even if you are experienced in adjusting these to work 
>> with serial terminal (HP-200-LX here), it is easy to forget to edit 
>> the requisites when loading up a brand-new snapshot.
> 
> Well, none of those things will cause a deadlock ;)
> 
> Kris
> 
>

No, but one of them can 'blind' your serial terminal to what is...

;-)


Bill


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