stability of FreeBSD 7 Beta 3?

Chris chrcoluk at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 10:24:15 PST 2007


On 28/11/2007, Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately both of these are not high quality PR submissions, which
> is probably why no action has been taken yet.  At least in the first one
> you give a "how to repeat" that I was able to follow, but in general
> when you encounter a panic you should be providing the backtrace and/or
> other debugging information requested here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
>
> The second PR is basically null as written since it cannot be reproduced
> and no debugging information was submitted.  If you are interested in
> proceeding with it, please reproduce and obtain the necessary kernel
> debugging.  Otherwise we should close it.
>
> Does the patch I sent you solve the first problem?
>
> Kris
>
>
Ok the patch hasnt stopped the watch crashing in addition the reboot I
did after compiling the new kernel also caused a crash and there was
defenitly no fsck running in the background when I did the reboot.

Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in
kernel mode
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: fault virtual address        = 0x24
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: fault code           = supervisor
read, page not present
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: instruction pointer  = 0x20:0xc3f84262
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: stack pointer                =
0x28:0xde0c2b34
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: frame pointer                =
0x28:0xde0c2b88
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: code segment         = base 0x0,
limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: processor eflags     = interrupt
enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: current process              = 901 (sh)
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: trap number          = 12
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: panic: page fault
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: cpuid = 0
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: Uptime: 49m19s
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: Physical memory: 723 MB
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: Dumping 122 MB: 107 91 75 59 43 27 11
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: Dump complete
Nov 28 12:21:52 revolution kernel: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds -
press a key on the console to abort

I will post back later when I have more debug information for you.

Chris


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