freebsd7, radeon, xorg-server -> deadlock or so

[Masoom Shaikh]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> After updated the xorg* and dri* and dependency, the system going to
> deadlock at second start of xserver. I think it is not an uniqe issue,
> as others wrote them at freebsd-x11:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2010-February/009370.html
>
> The symptoms:
> * independent from enabled or disabled DRI or GLX, first I think, this
> is the error, but not
> * the system going to deadlock state
> * no coredumps of xorgs
> * no panic, but the system is unusuable
> * independent from the driver: probed the radeon and radeonhd driver
> * independent from the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU or WITH_NOUVEAU compile options
> (make.conf)
> * the system is: FreeBSD peonia.teteny.bme.hu 7.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
> 7.3-PRERELEASE #29 r203612+fa83fdf: Mon Feb  8 02:11:08 CET 2010
> root at peonia.teteny.bme.hu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/stable  amd64
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are you using intel wireless cards ? I had/having similar issues when such
freeze happens hard boot is the only option. I think it has something to do
with wlandev or something related to wpi driver. I cannot comment more since
coredumps are occasional and back trace suggests it is doadump().

here is my report earlier
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-November/207768.html