From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 1 01:01:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0F016A41F for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 01:01:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from smartmx-04.inode.at (smartmx-04.inode.at [213.229.60.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55AC443D45 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2006 01:01:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [85.124.24.193] (port=52001 helo=[192.168.1.11]) by smartmx-04.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Esrbd-0007gH-DE; Sun, 01 Jan 2006 02:01:53 +0100 Message-ID: <43B72A00.2010503@inode.at> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 02:01:52 +0100 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Cracauer References: <43B6C134.6060802@inode.at> <20051231135851.A65762@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <20051231135851.A65762@cons.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deadlock FreeBSD 6 / 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:01:54 -0000 Martin Cracauer wrote: > Armin Pirkovitsch wrote on Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 06:34:44PM +0100: > >>Hi! >> >> I have some troubles with my notebook and any version of FreeBSD >>(starting with 6 since my sata controller wasn't supported earlier). >>It looks like as it would end up in a deadlock which means i have no >>access to the debugger nor to any other kind of tracing methods. >>Even with KTR, WITTNESS and DIAGNOSTIC enabled in the kerenl I get no >>message what went wrong or what might have caused the trouble. >>These fullstops always turn up when i compile and install programs (or >>sometimes during the installation of FreeBSD itself) >>Hardware: >>Intel Pentium-M 760 (Centrino, 2GHz) >>VIA VT 6421 SATA Controller >>80GB Samsung SATA HD >> >>I guess one of those parts creates the trouble, but I have no idea how >>to trace it... >>Is there a way to run the whole thing in some kind of debugger? >>Or is there a diffrent way to locate the problem? > > > It's more likely to be a general instability from broken hardware. > > Use prime95 (ports/math/mprime) to test your processor and thermal > stability (36 hours or so), and memtest86 (seperately). I guess I should have mentioned that other systems work fine and run stable (and memtest returns no errors) (Linux was up several days compiling stuff like OO etc) -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at