Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 23:42:50 -0600 From: "Jeff Mitchell" <jam6@cec.wustl.edu> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: 4.9: ata1-slave glitch causes hangs on rebooting Message-ID: <002101c39d16$53fc2260$0300a8c0@scales>
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Hey, Stable list-- I'm running 4.8 new install CVSup/make buildworld/buildkernel/etc. upped = to the latest 4.9 sources as of about a week ago. I have a problem that = pops up with nearly every reboot of my machine (Dell Inspiron 7500). When the system is booting, I get a line (that I gather is fairly = common) that says "ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded". = Unfortunately my computer most often decides to freeze (in the "I must = turn the power off and back on" sense) before this line is displayed: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 *** FREEZE POINT *** ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded pccard: card inserted, slot 1 pccard: card removed, slot 1 Turning the power off and on *always* causes the computer to get past = the freeze point and boot fully. I've tried adding and removing various = devices from my kernel (at first I thought adding device pcm caused the = problem, but removing it did not help...I removed the parallel port = devices, which used to be initialized after the serial port devices, but = that obviously did not help either since it now simply freezes after the = serial devices). I don't know if it's somehow related to the pccard = lines that follow it, since I'm certainly not inserting and removing = devices as I boot up, but I figure that's likely just the slot = initializing. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions I'd appreciate it. Also, one more issue. I'm running Gnome 2.4 with GDM. I can hit Reboot = at the login screen and reboot just fine, but hitting Shut Down doesn't = shut down the computer. Instead, X seems to quit, then get restarted, = and then the screen goes blank (except that my display, while blank, is = flickering very slightly). Pressing a bunch of Ctrl-Cs and Ctrl-Xs and = Ctrl-Alt-Deletes gets it to reboot, but I'm not sure what's going on = here. When this happens I cannot get to the console by Ctrl-Alt-F1 so I = can't see what's happening. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks, Jeff
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