From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 14 21:41:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A05D37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:41:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net (ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net [68.14.60.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67A843F85 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:41:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net) Received: from ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h2F5jEwb066417; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:45:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by ip68-14-60-78.no.no.cox.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h2F5jESQ066416; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:45:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030314075657.E1432@gravy.kishka.net> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:45:14 -0600 (CST) Organization: A Rag-Tag Band of Drug-Crazed Hippies From: Conrad Sabatier To: Bryan Liesner Subject: Re: panic on boot (devfs_find) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Mar-2003 Bryan Liesner wrote: > > > I made posts here recently describing some panics which are somehow > related to disappearing/never created device nodes. I am unable to > produce a core dump at all, as it panics before / is mounted. > The documented kern.dumpdev (unknown oid) doesn't exist and > setting dumpdev=ad0s1b in loader.conf doesn't help either. > > I compiled the faulty kernel with ddb and found that the failure was > in devfs_find(). I'm trying to gather more information. Any tips on > how to get a proper core dump would be appreciated. > > As described in my earlier posts, this started happening sometime > shortly after commits done after 3/10/2003. > > Now, really, am I the only one experiencing this? No, you're not. I've been unable to get a bootable kernel running for the last few days also. Booting in verbose mode, I see the last thing that occurs just before the panic is mounting root and then starting (or trying to start) /sbin/init. After an initial "hang", it drops into ddb. -- Conrad Sabatier - "In Unix veritas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message