kernel panics in recent RELENG_5

[Alexander S. Usov]

Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:

> * Alexander S. Usov <A.S.Usov at kvi.nl>:
> 
>> It look that something was broken in the last few days in
>> RELENG_5 branch. I am getting reproducible panics by pressing
>> almost any key while system is booting or is in shutdown.
>> Once it is up -- it works mostly fine.
>> Also I noted that the keyboard was not working on my laptop
>> while in the booting phase -- so after I managed to get a second
>> panic doing fsck, I was unable to do anything in single-user mode.
>> The only working keys I found were ScrollLock/Pause and
>> Ctrl-Alt-Del :) Howewer rebooting it with acpi turned off I managed
>> to get it working.
> 
> I can probably confirm this. When I boot a RELENG_5 kernel that uses
> version 1.228.2.4 (committed by dwhite, Cc'ed) of /sys/kern/tty.c, I do
> not get beyond init's "select shell" prompt. The keyboard attaches
> properly though and Ctrl-Alt-Del and Scroll Lock do still work, too.

I my case I got it working by booting with ACPI off.

> Reverting kern/tty.c to 1.228.2.3 does the trick for me.
> 
> I do not get a panic, fortunately(?).

I am getting panic by pressing a key when nobody listens the terminal.
I have just submitted a trace.

-- 
Best regards,
  Alexander.