From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 17:46:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7441010656AA; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from masoom.shaikh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f184.google.com (mail-pz0-f184.google.com [209.85.222.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A1748FC1A; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk14 with SMTP id 14so335879pzk.8 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:46:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DFGe+IrFgJlJlV4lFSNcAePmGnzbkZm0zWSu5elO0fU=; b=KGLuhVqjETzytaKaEm0IXxIszDwcDx0jxBk7fsTYe5FcLm1TY3p4Kcceh6x6C0+eBh gkFrkpBAMans7KGzitDqrU64d2vK6J+2BFzNusy8sMvh7xqd9Tt+XzWrtsBCmkVqSxkq YjtoNJxb3uRPM7lDXZY3dAcCLi9b+/WFApeaU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DmTASIbNSbpSpnbBHqe0vUUO0yhRjPsOx0PZnQHHnV9P6pkDB35WlrtLu8oV4AnrA3 Ao2aT8nteUYsOQIxtX19clWU42ze7EeSQYhUsCOqbAQMN/S415mnSG6v05xhvQGiaQWX v0XiXyFaRyqRJmKg9dZPYL5DYDqPBx7F90Tn8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.166.18 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:46:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <9bbcef731003280503q4993e5b4ud8d874b8e9c376a9@mail.gmail.com> <9bbcef731003281038x33b8a9atc2a81d22aa26468@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:46:55 +0000 Received: by 10.141.124.18 with SMTP id b18mr693793rvn.202.1270748816098; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Masoom Shaikh To: Anoop Kumar Narayanan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random FreeBSD panics X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:46:57 -0000 On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh w= rote: >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: >>> >>>> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome >>>> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it >>>> result in reasonable performance penalty. >>> >>> Very probably, if only we could detect where the problem is. >>> Try adding "options =A0 =A0 PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=3D128" to the kernel >>> configuration file if you can, to see if you can get a less mangled >>> log outout. >>> >> >> ok, after few days of silence I am back with more questions >> this time system feels little better, it is able to sustain for more >> time that what 7.3-RELEASE could >> >> FreeBSD raptor 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Thu Apr =A01 >> 01:20:45 UTC 2010 =A0 =A0 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/INSPIRON =A0amd64 >> >> I am using KDE4, and when OS freezes, well it freezes, means I cannot >> change to tty0 and see the panic text, if any it might possibly have >> spit. the stuck frozen GUI keeps staring there. So the question is how >> to I capture that panic text ? unfortunately I am not getting core >> files too, so there is nothing I can pick up hints >> >> is there some option (KDB, DDB), so that on panic system drop to debugge= r ? >> >> Masoom Shaikh > > I am having the very same problem, with my AMD64 running i386 (both > 7.3-REL and 8.0-REL) keeps crashing, The best part is, if I disable > ACPI it crashes before it even boots up so is the case with safe-mode > and single-user-mode. With ACPI it boots up but crashes after a while. > I have the vmcore files on the system. Who do I contact on this regard > ? > >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" >> > can u load that file in kgdb in get backtrace ?