Odd reboot problems with 9.0-RELEASE i386

[Sean Bruno]

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:06 -0800, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently upgraded my 8.2-RELEASE box to 9.0-RELEASE using the old-fashioned 
> cvsup way. I've run into a really strange situation.
> 
> Everything went smoothly with the upgrade. I then deleted all my installed 
> ports and started reinstalling. I noticed the problem when trying to compile 
> openjdk6.
> 
> The box would spontaneously reboot. All the time.
> 
> So, I put the following into /etc/rc.conf. I'll repost here, it's entirely 
> possible I did something wrong:
> 
> dumpdev="/dev/ada0s1b"  # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or 
> NO).
> dumpdir="/usr/crash/"    # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored
> 
> I made sure /usr/crash was created and had permissions wide open. Yet, I never 
> got any crash dumps (I recreated the reboot several times over.)
> 
> I tried compiling a GENERIC kernel; that failed as well. So I got the DVD iso, 
> and copied over the /boot/kernel directory from it. 
> 
> Once I did that, i was able to compile a new GENERIC kernel no problem. (I 
> need to take out the pcn driver; I need le and pcn jumps it.) 
> 
> With the slightly-modified GENERIC kernel, the problem has disappeared. I've 
> compiled openjdk no problem. I tried recompiling my custom kernel and 
> reinstalled it; the problem reappeared.
> 
> I've attached my kernel config file; there's nothing revolutionary about it. 
> It's almost identical to the one I used for 8.2-RELEASE, but based on the new 
> 9.0 GENERIC.  Maybe someone here will find it useful.
> 
> A cc would be appreciated as I don't follow -stable.
> 
> Cheers,
> DMK


This sounds suspciously like a bug the ports team found on the the 9 RC
series.  I can't recall where it got fixed, but I'm pretty sure it did
*not* make it to the release.

You may have better luck with stable/9 instead of 9.0-RELEASE if you can
do that.

Sean