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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:12:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Sid Carter <sidcarter@symonds.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel from latest cvsup refuses to boot. - hangs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209121109510.24579-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <86y9a77a5p.fsf@calvin.in.ibm.com>

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On 12 Sep 2002, Sid Carter wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:30:55 -0700 (PDT), Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> said:
> 
>     Nate> tell without more info.  Enable options DDB, boot -vs, wait for the
>     Nate> hang.  Hit CTRL-ALT-ESC to go into DDB and type tr to get a
>     Nate> backtrace.  Copy the trace info (serial console is best for this).  Hit c
>     Nate> for continue, wait, repeat.  Chances are you'll still be at the same
>     Nate> backtrace.  If so, then this is the code that's hanging.
> 
> Hi,
> I am using the default GENERIC kernel and it already has DDB compiled
> in. When I try to do what you suggested above, nothing happens. It is
> still in the hung state. No changes. And I don't have a serial console
> that I can setup :(

Then it's a hard hang somewhere after the bpfinit call.  A better approach
would be to figure out which source changes introduced the problem by
cvsupping to certain days around when it happened, buildkernel,
reboot.  Once you have it narrowed down to a day, you can identify the
culprit commit.

-Nate


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