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Date:      Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:24:11 +0100 (BST)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ted Faber <faber@isi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD8-RELENG (sources from this morning) deadlock
Message-ID:  <20091003142303.L14313@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20091002213116.GH88191@zod.isi.edu>
References:  <20090929041407.GA92280@zod.isi.edu> <20091002213116.GH88191@zod.isi.edu>

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On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Ted Faber wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:14:07PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote:
>> I've been havinhard time getting this motherboard to work under FreeBSD
>> 8.0.  It comes up fairly fine (though I didn't get the PATA disk
>> identified  under 7-STABLE so it may also be shaky under 8), but after
>> between 3 and 10 minutes of running multi user it locks up hard, and
>> wont respond to input at all.  No keyboard response, couldn't get into a
>> kernel debugger, nothing.  I couldn't get a kernel dump for that reason.
>
> I'm still deadlocked, but trying to get more info.  I tried a firewire
> debugging session using dcons, but that failed for reasons unclear.
> dconschat seems to do the right thing:
>
> ---
> musicbox:~$ sudo dconschat -v =E2=80=90br =E2=80=90G 12345 =E2=80=90t 00-=
00-4c-01-00-00-3b-c7
> dconschat: kvm_nlist: No such file or directory
> dcons_buf: 0xc0d74740
> port 0   size offset   gen   pos
> output:  9184     56     1  1550
> input :  3062   9240     0   106
> port 1   size offset   gen   pos
> output:  3061  12302     0     0
> input :  1021  15363     0     0
> [dcons connected]
> (1)(1)(1)(1)(1)
> ---
>
> But the gdb fails to connect:
>
> ----
> musicbox:~$ kgdb kernel
> GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you =
are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditi=
ons.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for detail=
s.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols =
found)...
> (kgdb) target remote :12345
> :12345: Connection refused.
> ----

Do you have options GDB/DDB/KDB in your kernel?

Gavin
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