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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:43:05 +0300
From:      Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru>
To:        Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mpd sometimes hangs the whole system?
Message-ID:  <45D9D399.3090005@webmail.sub.ru>
In-Reply-To: <45D9D177.5050706@thekeelecentre.com>
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Richard Tector wrote:
> Alex Povolotsky wrote:
>> Richard Tector wrote:
>>> Alex Povolotsky wrote:
>>>> Richard Tector wrote:
>>>>> Alex Povolotsky wrote:
>>>>>> mpd (fresh) on FreeBSD 6.1p12 sometimes hangs system, totally, to 
>>>>>> reset. Tried two completely different boxes, so it cannot be a 
>>>>>> hardware problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Which version of mpd are you using? Have you tried the latest 
>>>>> version from ports, 4.1? I've read it fixes a *lot* of problems 
>>>>> found with the older versions.
>>>>
>>>> 3.18_5; Is mpd 4 100% backwards compartible?
>>>
>>> Yes, 4.x should work just fine with your 3.x configuration files.
>>>
>>>> And, what's worse, I've heard of exactly the same problem on 4.0. 
>>>> Kernel _freeze_ should be something kernel-related, I fear.
>>>
>>> Quite possible. It involves putting the interfaces in promiscuous 
>>> mode so could be due to a bug in your network card driver. What 
>>> interfaces are you using?
>>
>> Proimisc?... hmm... fxp. Rock solid thing, as far as I can remember. 
>> Can try em instead
>
> Or perhaps it doesn't. All I can remember is it requires the bpf 
> netgraph module.
>
No, it just requires bpf module to allow tcpdump on ngXX.
> If it's a hard lock rather than a panic, perhaps it's a problem with 
> your hardware then? Memory perhaps?

Not possible. Two boxes without a single common thing, save maybe a 
network card. And works flawless without mpd.

Alex.




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