From owner-freebsd-qa Thu Jan 10 0:43:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from pump3.york.ac.uk (pump3.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8560A37B41B; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:43:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by pump3.york.ac.uk (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g0A8h3419774; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:43:03 GMT Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0A8h2795687; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:43:03 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:43:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson To: Nils Holland Cc: , Subject: Re: 4.5-PRE panic in vfs_cache with softupdates, via chipset In-Reply-To: <20020110001717.A92381@tisys.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Nils Holland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:03:09PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson stood up and spoke: > > > > I was running buildworld, with /usr/src and /usr/obj on seperate > > partitions, both with softupdates on. I have the problematic VIA > > southbridge. I was building world, then suspended it (ctrl-z) before > > suspending the laptop with 'apm -z'. Later, woke it up, and about 20 > > seconds later resumed the build. Two or three more files were compiled > > before the kernel panic occured. > > Welcome to the club ;-) > > Now, I'm no kernel expert either, but I wonder if you can reproduce your > problem. If it's similar to mine, you should be able exactly what you did > when the panic occured, and in about two out of three cases the problem > should be there again. No - I think that it's irregular. It's only happened twice, once while running buildworld, and once whlie running grep on /usr/src/sys. I certanly cannot make it panic on command. > If I had more money on my bank account right now, I'd probably simply > replace my mainboard with an unaffected one (either no VIA chipset or one > of the latest VIA things) and send my current one to Soren for further > investigation. I guess that if he'd see how strange it performs, he'd throw > it out of the window after a short period of time, and that's what I almost > did for about 20 times so far ;-) heh. sadly this is a brand new laptop... Thanks, Gavin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message