From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 20 03:26:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B94416A401 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:26:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@compar.com) Received: from daisy2.compar.com (mail3.compar.com [199.243.196.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C6243D48 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:26:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@compar.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.compar.com [127.0.0.1]) by daisy2.compar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8498713C5E6 for ; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:25:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from unknown by localhost (amavisd-new, unix socket) id client-L4Ri95dn; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:25:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from hermes (CPE00062566c7bb-CM0011e6ede298.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.28.254.189]) by daisy2.compar.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 11D3D13C5E5; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:25:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001401c64bce$51c10bf0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matt Emmerton" To: "Matt Emmerton" , Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:28:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at compar.com Cc: Subject: Re: 6.0-REL problems with ISA ed0 and ancient hardware [ updated ] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:26:57 -0000 > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 04:39:19PM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:28:45AM -0500, Matt Emmerton wrote: > > > [ Asked on -questions on Friday; re-asking now on -stable without > > > cross-post] > > > > > > I recently upgraded a 4.11-REL machine to 6.0-REL and have run into some > > > snags. While the installation from CD went fine, after configuring and > > > enabling my ed0 NIC, bad things start to happen. > > > > > > FWIW, this machine is an ancient (hardware circa 1991, BIOS circa 1994) > > > dual-Pentium 133 MHz machine, with EISA/PCI and onboard SCSI. > > > > > > So far I can reliably reproduce two panics, one appears to be a ed > driver > > > bug (based on reports of similar panics with different NICs, notably > nge) > > > and one is a filesystem corruption problem. > > > > > > Here's the process that I go through to reliably reproduce both > problems. > > > 1) Boot machine in multi-user mode > > > 2) After ifconfig ed0, machine panics with a trap 12 in ithread_loop. > > > 3) In debugger, reset (or panic to get vmcore) > > The panic doesn't happen during the ifconfig -- it happens shortly after > "hostname" is run. > > The details of this panic are in the attached typescript output. > > From what I can see, it looks like the stack is smashed hence ih is bogus, > so we fail on the deref. I tried booting the box with no ethernet cable attached, and it was able to come up to a login prompt successfully. Attempting any kind of network operation (ping, traceroute, etc) failed (of course) but no panics were observed. However, as soon as connecting an ethernet cable, the machine would promptly panic as previously reported. -- Matt Emmerton