Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:28:38 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr> To: "Kevin Quinlan (UK)" <KevinQ@ctxuk.citrix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel crashes using FreeBSD 3.1 Message-ID: <37553F96.C27309CE@telspace.alcatel.fr> References: <A16C4E1C3DD5D111A40C00805FAD51F4D9FC22@ukmail1.ctxuk.citrix.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------F83DAEA399A88FA83F0D9500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, This is really strange : I've used cvsup since 2.2.6 and I've never seen such a bug. It may be a subtle hardwar fault on your machine. Can you "make buildworld" on this machine ? This is a most stressful operation, so if the compile goes to its end, you'll be sure your hardware is sane. HTH / TfH :"Kevin Quinlan (UK)" wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a machine, a totally standard Dell Poweredge 2200 on which I am > running FreeBSD 3.1 RELEASE. > > When I run cvsup, the kernel crashes with a trap 12. > > Now I see from the various mailing list archives that a number of people > have reported similar problems, but I have not seen any mention of a fix. > > One problem that I have of course, is that I am not getting updated source > files, as it is cvsup that is crashing. > > I would surmise that there is a malloc probem in cvsup, when trussing the > process I get a lot of > "truss in free(): warning: page is already free." but I would not expect > this to crash the kernel. > > I can reproduce the problem on a generic kernel. > > But my questions are these: > > Are there any identifiable kernel fixes for this type of problem that I can > apply? Or do I have to upgrade to 3.2? > > I should explain that it is only cvsup so far that tickles this bug, but > this is only 1 of a number of machines I am building, and although the > others are stable so far, so was this one before I started running cvsup, so > upgrading with so much work in progress is not quite a painless option. > There was one suggestion in the mailing list to sidegrade to 2.2.8. > Unfortunately this is an unsatisfactory solution in this case, as I need > some features of the 3,x system on the other machines. > > I can supply stack pointer and crash information if required, but it seems > that the problem has been seen on a number of occasions, although not > particularly with cvsup as far as I can tell. > > Any information appreciated. > > Thanks > > Kevin Quinlan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --------------F83DAEA399A88FA83F0D9500 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="thierry.herbelot.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Thierry Herbelot Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="thierry.herbelot.vcf" begin:vcard n:Herbelot;Thierry tel;work:(+33) 1 46 52 47 23 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot org:CIT Nanterre adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr x-mozilla-cpt:;-22032 fn:Thierry Herbelot end:vcard --------------F83DAEA399A88FA83F0D9500-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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