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Date:      Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:50:02 GMT
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/118897: Kernel Panic acquiring IP address from DHCP server on	newly enabled netcard
Message-ID:  <200712291150.lBTBo2K7068688@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/118897; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/118897: Kernel Panic acquiring IP address from DHCP server
 on	newly enabled netcard
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:31:04 +0200

 Kris Kennaway wrote:
 > Manolis Kiagias wrote:
 >>> Number:         118897
 >>> Category:       kern
 >>> Synopsis:       Kernel Panic acquiring IP address from DHCP server
 >>> on newly enabled netcard
 >>> Confidential:   no
 >>> Severity:       critical
 >>> Priority:       medium
 >>> Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>> State:          open
 >>> Quarter:        Keywords:       Date-Required:
 >>> Class:          sw-bug
 >>> Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>> Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 20 18:10:02 UTC 2007
 >>> Closed-Date:
 >>> Last-Modified:
 >>> Originator:     Manolis Kiagias
 >>> Release:        6.3-RC1
 >>> Organization:
 >>> Environment:
 >> FreeBSD pegasus.dyndns.org 6.3-RC1-p1 FreeBSD 6.3-RC1-p1 #2: Sun Dec 
 >> 2 19:48:21 EET 2007    
 >> root@pegasus.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PEGASUS  i386
 >>
 >>> Description:
 >> Machine has a broadcom network card shown as bfe0.  At boot, the card
 >> is not enabled (commented out) in rc.conf Driver attaches normally.
 >> After editing rc.conf to enable the line:
 >>
 >> ifconfig_bfe0="DHCP"
 >>
 >> and running:
 >>
 >> /etc/rc.d/netif restart
 >>
 >> there is a kernel panic while getting an address from DHCP server (a
 >> linksys home router).
 >>
 >> panic: page fault
 >> fault virtual address = 0x104
 >> fault code = supervisor read, page not present
 >> instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc052417d
 >> stack pointer = 0x28:0xe71ffbec
 >> frame pointer = 0x28:0xe71ffbf8
 >> code segment = base 0x0 limit 0xfffff type 0x1b
 >> =DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
 >> =resume, IOPL=0
 >> =971 (ifconfig)
 >> =12
 >>> How-To-Repeat:
 >> The symptom is repeatable every time. Use the procedure mentioned
 >> above. The symptom does not occur if you reboot after enabling the
 >> card in rc.conf. In this case the card is assigned an IP and
 >> subsequent runs of netif have no undesirable effects.
 >>> Fix:
 >> None that I know. Only workaround is to reboot after enabling the
 >> rc.conf entry.
 >>
 >>> Release-Note:
 >>> Audit-Trail:
 >>> Unformatted:
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 >>
 >
 > Thanks for the report, but you need to do some additional work to
 > complete the submission.  Please see:
 >
 >
 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
 >
 >
 > and obtain a crashdump and backtrace.
 >
 > Kris
 >
 >
 Thanks
 Will do promptly and come back with the results.
 
 Manolis



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