FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE boot freeze

[kama]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 29/09/2009 21:50 kama said the following:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >
> >> Serial console and remote debugging perhaps?
> >
> > ILO is serial console or rather console++, since you can even see the
> > whole bootup sequence, change bios. But thats if you connect through their
> > webinterface
> >
> > Just point me what other options I could try to get a proper dump or bt.
>
> Perhaps you could still use the following:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-gdb.html
> Otherwise, no ideas.
>
> >> Anyway, I'll try to see if I can reproduce undefined symbol issue here.
> >>
> >> Not that it would matter much for resolution of your main problem (freeze).
> >> Honestly, I have no clue about it.
> >
> > Ok. Hopefully someone else knows what can produce these freezes.
>
> BTW, remembering something you said earlier - does including acpi device into
> kernel still work for you? I.e. can you boot normally with that?
>
> Also, can you try 8 on that machine? Just for the sake of experiment?
>

It boot occationally. It does not seem to matter if I include the acpi
device into the kernel or not.

I get this message in an verbose boot:
KLD file acpi.ko - could not finalize loading

I have now included a lot of debuging options. But since the server
freezes, Im not able to send a break signal to get into the debugger.

I'll try to run FSBD8 on the server later this week.

/Bjorn