Repeated panics...Suspect USB issues

[Josh Tolbert]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:03:12AM -0600, Josh Tolbert wrote:
> > A backtrace would be nice. See the developer's handbook on kernel
> > debugging for details.
> 
> I'm trying to get a backtrace. I've built a kernel with all the right bits,
> set up dumpdir and dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf, etc...Apparently savecore doesn't
> like writing to the swap partition (/dev/ar0s1b). I can get to the ddb promp,
> obtain a trace, panic the machine, etc...But I don't think I can obtain a good
> core without putting another hard drive in the machine, which isn't going to
> happen till sometime next week...Is there anything I can provide from the ddb
> prompt?
> 
> Thanks,
> Josh

Old problem revival time...

Since dumps don't like being written out to a partition on a RAID1 set, this
is about the only kind of trace I could obtain:

http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/Pics/Misc/trace.jpg

For what it's worth, I moved the printer to another machine and removed the
USB-to-parallel adapter that was the catalyst of the problem. If anyone cares
to work on this problem I'll be more than happy to send the cable on a one-way
trip to any interested party in order to help get the problem resolved.

If anyone's interested in the cable for testing, etc. just let me know.

Thanks,
Josh
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