Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:55:48 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Debugging problems on amd64-current Message-ID: <200708270855.48720.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <7ed534d5904b6579416f3c1be82c2792@gmail.com> References: <7ed534d5904b6579416f3c1be82c2792@gmail.com>
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On Friday 24 August 2007 03:13:08 am Joshua Isom wrote: > As some may remember, about a month ago I asked a question about my dvd > drive, apparently an sata atapi drive. Updating to a 7.0-current/amd64 > kernel did allow it to be recognized and I've been able to use it. But > recently I'd been noticing a kernel crash I could create. My computer > is headless so I didn't get any dump(savecore saved nothing). If I > used gdb and stepped after a segfault, it'd crash the system. Pressing > the power button did nothing, and pressing and holding it was required > to get it to do something. Although I knew there was a problem, I > figured I'd update my world to match my kernel(a few apps didn't work > with the mismatch but those I needed did). It went smoothly, until I > tried running gdb. Have you tried breaking into the kernel debugger? It sounds like you've hit a deadlock of some sort. -- John Baldwin
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