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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:19:24 +0000
From:      Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: www/chromium crashing whole system
Message-ID:  <20101115221924.GA38676@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CDF0F03.10703@freebsd.org>
References:  <20101113112447.GF2392@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20101113115900.GA14975@freebsd.org> <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>

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On Sat Nov 13 10, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 11/13/10 2:13 PM, Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> >On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >
> >>   Isn't there also DEADLKRES that might be helpful in this case (if
> >>Alex is really dealing with a livelock in the kernel)...?
> >
> >The deadlock resolver is compiled into the GENERIC kernel on 
> >-CURRENT, so I'm assuming it hasn't helped (or perhaps is even part 
> >of the problem).  I think the best thing to do at this point is to 
> >try to get into DDB.  Of the schemes I suggested to work around the 
> >X11 issue, switching to a virtual console before starting Chromium 
> >may work best, since it will continue to use the local X server, etc.
> An alternate way of handling this:
> Turn on the VNC X server and use that from a remote place, leaving the 
> console free.

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.

cheers.
alex

> >
> >Robert
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-- 
a13x



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