Fatal trap 18

[Andriy Gapon]

on 09/11/2010 17:59 Dan Allen said the following:
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> On 9 Nov 2010, at 8:24 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
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>> on 09/11/2010 17:22 Dan Allen said the following:
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>>> On 9 Nov 2010, at 8:11 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
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>>>> /boot/loader.conf contents
>>>
>>> This might be the smoking gun!
>>>
>>> cat loader.conf:
>>>
>>> 	hint.apic.0.disabled="1"
>>
>> Yes, it is.
>> So why do you have it and what happens if you remove it?
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> Well, there is good news and bad news.
> 
> The good news is that if I remove this hint the machine boots with 2 CPUs.
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> The bad news is that I get lots of:
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>   CPU0: local APIC error 0x40
>   CPU1: local APIC error 0x40
> 
> messages and the machine is very unresponsive.  Every keystroke has a second or two of delay.  It really is unusable.
> 
> If memory serves I had to turn off APIC in order to see both CPUs at some time in the past.  However, at some time in the past I had both CPUs and did not have the severe unresponsiveness that I get without this hint.
> 
> So with APIC I get both CPUs but an unusable config.  Without APIC I have one CPU but things are lively.
> 
> What next?

Let's see if anybody else can help you with that stuff.
My jurisdiction (area of expertise) ends here.

Verbose dmesg will be useful in any case.

-- 
Andriy Gapon