hangup (livelock) - db> prompt in endless loop

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 5 08:22:30 PST 2009


2008/12/19 Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin at citrin.ru>:
> Anton Yuzhaninov wrote:
>>
>> My box with fresh current sometimes stops to respond.
>>
>> On screen in endless loop printed debugger prompt
>>
>> db>
>>
>> but I can't type anything here.
>>
>> Alt+Ctrl+Esc and Alt+Ctrl+Del don't stops this loop.
>>
>> How I can debug this problem?
>>
>> system: current from Mon Dec 15 16:16:23 MSK 2008 with GENERIC kernel,
>> amd64, SMP.
>>
>
> With more fresh current - Wed Dec 17 21:09:38
> Panic not repeated.

This is probabilly a bug in the DDB lookup function.
It just stops immediately or after a couple of commands? (and if it
does, which comands exactly?)

Thanks,
Attilio


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