Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:34:12 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: Neil Hoggarth <njh@kernighan.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Matt Groener <root@groenquist.com> Subject: Re: init: /bin/sh terminates abnormally in /etc/rc Qlogic problem? profiling timer expired Message-ID: <00092706352000.02419@marbsd.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009242020390.360-100000@homebrew.kernighan.demon.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009242020390.360-100000@homebrew.kernighan.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Neil Hoggarth wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, I wrote: > > > I still have the problem, and I haven't had a chance to properly > > explore it. I had a quick poke around with the web interface to the > > CVS repository, and it appeared to me that the Qlogic driver itself > > hasn't changed since 4.1-RELEASE, and I'm running 4.1-RELEASE okay > > (well, sort of - I'm having X11 problems that I didn't have with > > 3.4-RELEASE, but I don't know that this is related to the profiling > > timer thing). > > I think that I take that back. Profiling timer problems *do* appear to be > present in my 4.1-RELEASE installation, though they are not anything like > as severe as in 4-STABLE of 23rd August (where they are bad enough to > prevent the system coming up multiuser). > > The 4.1-RELEASE system boots and fscks its filesystems okay, but some > things do still die, aparently at random, with signal 27 (SIGPROF); most > notably the XFree86 3.3.6 server for my Matrox G200 graphics card. I also > had a "make installworld" fail with a "Profiling timer expired" error (a > subsequent attempt to installworld worked). > > A couple of questions: > > 1) Can anyone explain to me what the "profiling timer" is, and under what > circumstances the kernel delivers SIGPROF to processes (or give me a > push/pointer in the right direction)? > > 2) I'd be interested to know if anybody out there is using the isp driver > successfully in 4-STABLE? > > Regards, > > Neil. hhhm cvsupped last night to 4.1.1- stable -----seems to be ok These are just my opinions you are free to disagree please do so quietly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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