Date: 15 Apr 2006 15:28:43 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Alejandro Pulver <alepulver@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nvidia.ko kernel panic after upgrade to 6.0 Message-ID: <44irpaeiz8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060415124138.1e1e1e4d@phobos.mars.bsd> References: <20060415124138.1e1e1e4d@phobos.mars.bsd>
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Alejandro Pulver <alepulver@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Hello. > > I have upgraded my two identical (same CPU and motherboard) machines > from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 (cvs tag RELENG_6_0). Both of them have NVidia > video cards. One has a GeForce 4 MX 440 w/AGP8X and the other a GeForce > 6600. > > I upgraded the system as described in the handbook and after that I > rebuilt all the installed ports. > > On the machine which has the GeForce 6600 everything works fine, but in > the other machine there are two problems. Strangely in the machine that > works fine the problem #1 happened only once. > > 1) The first time the module was built (after upgrading to 6.0) when X > started the system and screen frozen after 3 seconds. This didn't stop > happening. > > 2) After rebuilding the nvidia-driver port the system crashes (kernel > panic) when it tries to load the kernel module to complete the > installation of the port. It outputs the following messages (sometimes > one and sometimes the other), followed by some information and kernel > dump progress: > > panic: softdep_setup_inomapdep: found inode > [...] > > Fatal trap 18: integer divide fault while in kernel mode > [...] > > The second error is the same as the one the working machine outputted > when I tried to load the 5.4 kernel module into the 6.0 kernel. > > If I copy the nvidia module from the working machine, problem #2 gets > solved, but problem #1 happens. > > What can I do? > > If you need more information just ask. On a system where I use that port, I upgrade it by just booting into single-user mode, make sure the module is unloaded, and then upgrading the module from there.
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