Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:16:41 +0000 From: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> To: "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: www/chromium crashing whole system Message-ID: <20101118191640.GA48394@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <EF3468C7-91EB-49ED-9966-88EDF0AF5A08@freebsd.org> References: <20101113122853.GG2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113123846.GA21390@freebsd.org> <20101113124146.GH2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113124758.GA23469@freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011132206380.12353@fledge.watson.org> <AANLkTim7ZGLFTj_3WZiC9hAsAaOVrz6yhKcMURV%2BsKvu@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1011132212400.12353@fledge.watson.org> <4CDF0F03.10703@freebsd.org> <20101115221924.GA38676@freebsd.org> <EF3468C7-91EB-49ED-9966-88EDF0AF5A08@freebsd.org>
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On Tue Nov 16 10, Robert N. M. Watson wrote: > > On 15 Nov 2010, at 22:19, Alexander Best wrote: > > > thanks for all your help. i've recently switched to chromium 6.0.472.63 > > and so far my computer has been very stable. > > > > if i experience more lock ups i'll let you know and try to figure out a way to > > gain access to some more debugging data. > > I'd prefer we try to figure out why your system was crashing now -- the kernel bug has not gone away just because Chromium is no longer triggering it. Working around the bug means someone else gets to run into it later -- perhaps when it's 9.0-RELEASE rather than 9-CURRENT... i'm really sorry, but this is a problem ~ 90% of desktop users have: 1) we only have 1 computer 2) we can't access our computer via some other box via ssh or something 3) we don't have serial cables or firewire cables so it seems in this situation a complete deadlock *cannot* be analyzed. the idea of dumping the memory to a usb stick after a hard reboot thus seems so attractive to users like me. still the question is: how can we use such a complete memory dump? i don't think it's as easy as loading it into kdb, is it? cheers. alex > > Robert -- a13x
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