8-stable crashes in vmware (possible em driver issue?)

[Jack Vogel]

Hmmm,  not sure what changes are in this, what if you use the 8.0 REL
driver, does it still happen?

Regards,

Jack


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Ivan Voras wrote:
>
>> I have a fairly recent 8-stable machine running under VMWare ESXi 3.5
>> (amd64 guest), which apparently crashes every few days from the same causes:
>>
>> em0: discard frame w/o packet header
>> em0: discard frame w/o packet header
>> em0: discard frame w/o packet header
>> Panic string: sbsndptr: sockbuf 0xffffff007cca8c20 and mbuf
>> 0xffffff00490a6400 clashing
>>
>
> In case someone is interested or has an idea - on this machine I have
> multiple crashed cores with similarily strange problems all connected with
> networking and/or the em driver:
>
> 1)
> em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> current process         = 0 (em0 taskq)
>
> 2)
> em0: watchdog timeout -- resetting
> Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
> current process         = 1219 (slapd)
>
> 3)
>
> em0: discard frame w/o packet header
> panic: sbdrop
>
> I'm scratching my head about the #2 above - I don't think trap#9 is usual.
>
>
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