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Date:      Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:55:39 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 3.3.6 dying
Message-ID:  <3C07498B.DF6BE2B4@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20011130134104.A42555@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
> With a recently re-built XFree86, running on -current from last Sunday,
> whenever I hit one of the keypad keys, the X server crashes.  This is
> somewhat disconcerting...
> 
> The kernel prints "sigreturn: eflags = 0x13282, was 0x256" (the old
> eflags value an addition I made to that printf whilst tracking down
> another problem).  These values are consistent.  The X server reports
> that it received SIGBUS and will core dump, but instead goes into a
> tight loop and needs kill -ABRT or kill -9 to recover.  This happens
> whether or not I'm logged in, after I use xmodmap to unmap the
> relevant keycodes and when the screen is locked.
> 
> ktrace on the Xserver shows the server reading a keycode from the
> keyboard, checking the mouse and getting EWOULDBLOCK then receiving
> a SIGBUS.
> 
> Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Apply the following patch and rebuild/reinstall your kernel:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/include/psl.h.diff?r1=1.10&r2=1.11

-Maxim

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