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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:23:19 -0500
From:      jhell <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        Adam Stylinski <stylinae@mail.uc.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: STABLE panics/hardlocks when savage module is inserted
Message-ID:  <4CE366C7.1030104@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik2wovxHG58xC4Rdo85gc%2BVR=u-9ycqtZ-p7LbW@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <AANLkTik2wovxHG58xC4Rdo85gc%2BVR=u-9ycqtZ-p7LbW@mail.gmail.com>

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On 11/16/2010 23:12, Adam Stylinski wrote:
> I hate to be the guy who gripes on the mailing list about his dinosaur video
> card's drivers crashing his system, but it's possible this could be an issue
> of a wider scope.  When I kldload savage the system hardlocks.  Not exactly
> sure if it's panicking or not, however I do have a serial port, so maybe I
> can setup a serial console and compile the kernel with debugger support to
> try and get a backtrace.
> 
> Anybody have any pointers?


This should give you enough of an overview of how to obtain and report
the information you obtain for debugging kernel problems.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html

The generic kernel configuration for the most part should be enough
information to start for most cases and this would at least give you a
starting point.

Using a GENERIC kernel from a release or a snapshot too would also help
to determine if its a problem as part of the project or a configuration
mistake you might have made in your custom kernel.



-- 

 jhell,v



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