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Date:      Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:39:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Andrews <mandrews@bit0.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sporadic 9.0-RC2 boot-time panic
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1112131537160.44712@beast.int.bit0.com>
In-Reply-To: <4EE02643.8050502@bit0.com>
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2011, Mike Andrews wrote:

> On 12/5/11 9:39 PM, Mike Andrews wrote:
>> On 12/1/2011 6:03 PM, Mike Andrews wrote:
>>> On 11/28/11 5:48 PM, Ronald Klop wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:37:27 +0100, Mike Andrews <mandrews@bit0.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> *Sometimes* when booting 9.0-RC2 on *some* of my machines, I'll get
>>>>> one of the following two panics during multiuser startup, usually
>>>>> while running the /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts. (The instruction
>>>>> pointer is always exactly one of these two, and they look fairly
>>>>> related.) If after two or three reboots it manages to not panic, the
>>>>> system will run perfectly stable.
>>> 
>> FYI this is still happening on 9.0-RC3 -- r228247 to be precise.
>> 
>> It only seems to be happening on one particular model of motherboard 
>> (Supermicro X8STi-F) but it is happening on several identical machines with 
>> them -- running on several other (mostly Supermicro) boards is just fine, 
>> including at least one with the exact same 82574L NICs.
>> 
>> Whoever's wanting to work on this, contact me off-list to get some more up 
>> to date console logs and the kernel config.
>
> ...or just look at the newly opened kern/163117 PR.

...

*crickets*

...or wait and hope r228386 and r228387 fix it, though I doubt they'll get 
merged before release.  I will see about finding test hardware that I can 
run -current on.



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