Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7

[Martin Cracauer]

Armin Pirkovitsch wrote on Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 06:34:44PM +0100: 
> Hi!
> 
>   I have some troubles with my notebook and any version of FreeBSD 
> (starting with 6 since my sata controller wasn't supported earlier).
> It looks like as it would end up in a deadlock which means i have no 
> access to the debugger nor to any other kind of tracing methods.
> Even with KTR, WITTNESS and DIAGNOSTIC enabled in the kerenl I get no 
> message what went wrong or what might have caused the trouble.
> These fullstops always turn up when i compile and install programs (or 
> sometimes during the installation of FreeBSD itself)
> Hardware:
> Intel Pentium-M 760 (Centrino, 2GHz)
> VIA VT 6421 SATA Controller
> 80GB Samsung SATA HD
> 
> I guess one of those parts creates the trouble, but I have no idea how 
> to trace it...
> Is there a way to run the whole thing in some kind of debugger?
> Or is there a diffrent way to locate the problem?

It's more likely to be a general instability from broken hardware.

Use prime95 (ports/math/mprime) to test your processor and thermal
stability (36 hours or so), and memtest86 (seperately).

Martin
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