FreeBSD 6.2-PRE panic

[Dominic Marks]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:41:00 -0800
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Dominic Marks wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:10:41 +0100
> > > Dominic Marks <dom at helenmarks.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:14:47 +0100
> > >> Dominic Marks <dom at helenmarks.co.uk> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Received this one this morning. I was in Gnome, just opened sylpheed. Had 
> > >>> a collection of other apps running, no particular high load. Debug kernel 
> > >>> and vmcore available for interested developers (592MB ... I've turned on 
> > >>> minidumps now.)
> > >>
> > >> And another, looks like the same again. This time I have a minidump (73MB) 
> > >> . Available for developers. I'm going to try going to latest STABLE and see 
> > >> if it goes away.
> > >
> > > And again, this time with latest STABLE. Help! (please) Ideas for a 
> > > work-around would be appreciated as well. As before crash info is available 
> > > to developers (93MB).
> > 
> > If you have a serial console set up, could you compile DDB, INVARIANTS, and 
> > WITNESS into the kernel?  When the panic occurs, run the following commands:
> > 
> >    show pcpu
> >    trace
> >    show allpcpu
> >    traceall
> >    show alllocks
> 
> Has Dominic followed up on this? I am seeing the same problem on my
> Athlon 4400+ system (running i386) and have been crashing 3 or 4 times a
> day on a kernel from Nov. 9.

Hi, no I have not. I disabled all the Gnome background bits,
dbus, polkit and hald and it went away, and I didn't have time
to come back to it as I need my desktop all day.

> I just updated to 6-Stable of Nov. 21 and it has not yet crashed, but if
> it fails again, I can provide the requested information. I really would
> like to see it resolved for the 6.2 release if at all possible.

I'll csup and rebuild tonight so see if it has gone for me too.

> In my case, the crashes have mostly occurred when I was either not on the
> system at all or when I was just logged into it via SSH from a terminal
> window on another system. No X-server was running at the time of any
> crash. (But polkitd and hald are started at boot time, so they were
> running.)

Thanks,
Dominic