powerd causing crash on Mini-ITX EN1200

[Ross Penner]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/27/09, Ross Penner <ross.penner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps, but I rarely run Xorg. I use the machine as a gateway for our
>> network in the house. I've noticed it most often when under a network
>> load but that might not be a real correlation.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2/26/09, Ross Penner <ross.penner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When I enable powerd, it is only but a matter of time before my
>>>> machine will lock up completely. I've had this problem since I've
>>>> migrated to FreeBSD 7 from 6. FreeBSD 6 never seemed to have any
>>>> problems. I doesn't seem to create a dump so I've had no luck on that
>>>> end. I'm quite perplexed on how to proceed to help get this problem
>>>> documented so it can be fixed.
>>>>
>>>> #uname -a
>>>> FreeBSD rosbox.dyndns.org 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Thu Feb 26
>>>> 00:38:44 PST 2009
>>>> ross at rosbox.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL7  i386
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything else I con provide that would be of assistance?
>>>
>>> I'm aware of livelock between syscons and powerd which is not trivial to
>>> reproduce (at least for me).
>
> The locks happens for me only if kernel prints something on console while
> something other is being printed on vtys.
> So it looks like your problem is not related to syscons bugs.
>
> --
> Paul

Well, it might not actually be that far off. When I have powerd
enabled, I frequently get a message on the console about 'vge watchdog
timeout'

Does anybody have any ideas on how to try and fix this issue?