From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 07:30:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72F2016A4CE; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:30:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mehl.gfz-potsdam.de (mehl.gfz-potsdam.de [139.17.1.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9493F43D60; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:30:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@uni-mainz.de) Received: from nfw1.gfz-potsdam.de (virscan [139.17.1.10]) by mehl.gfz-potsdam.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id j217Ui10028556; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:30:45 +0100 (CET) Received: from ([139.17.145.116]) by nfw1; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:30:42 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <42241A21.9010709@uni-mainz.de> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:30:41 +0100 From: "O. Hartmann" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Donald J. O'Neill" References: <200502281133.44659.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <200502281133.44659.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Robert Watson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:30:50 -0000 Well, it sounds funny, but it seems to be fixed by plugging in keyboard/mouse (both USB) into the USB ports on mobo - not as the scientist in Mainz did: into the TFT's USB hub. This seems to be an issue. Fridey last week, this machine ran head- and keyboardless until I did some stupid misconfigurations in the kernel. That's it ... Sorry Oliver P.S. Why is this behaviour so lethal to the kernel? Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Monday 28 February 2005 11:06 am, Robert Watson wrote: > >>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: >> >>>I did a cvsupdate several minutes before and tried to build world. >>>A buildworld stops as shown below in building libkvm. >> >>This is believed to now be fixed with an updated kvm_proc.c. If not, >>please let me know. >> >> >>>Also, the system is really instable after I build the kernel for >>>itself. Under heavy load, the machine get stuck and freezes. >>> >>>I have no more informations due to remote control of the system. >> >>Do you have approximate before/after dates for when the instability >>began? In particular, was it with an update in the last 48 or 96 >>hours? >> >>Robert N M Watson >> > > > Robert, > > If it helps you narrow things down, I did my last cvsup-src just before > 11:22AM yesterday, 02/27/05. Everything was smooth sailing. My system > appears stable. > 25211 Feb 5 07:48 /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c > > I use it mainly as a desktop, so it might not be real indicative how > stable it is as a server. > > Don >