FreeBSD 6.2-PRE panic

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:51:51 +0000
> From: Dominic Marks <dom at helenmarks.co.uk>
> 
> 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.)

It happened again last night (at almost exactly midnight). Several
failures seem to have coincided with crontab jobs and I have never had
the system crash while I was logged on the the system directly. Either I
was logged in over the net or was not logged in at all.

Due to the holiday (in the US), is did not have an opportunity to do
anything other then reboot it. I hope to have time to connect a laptop
to the console so I can record everything that happens to submit.

This si clearly not a common problem. What hardware do you have? Mine is
an Athlon64-4400+ on an MSI mobo with 1GB of RAM.
-- 
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