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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:22:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Call for testers: VirtualBox 3.1.4 update
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1003141419350.62884@thor.farley.org>
In-Reply-To: <fd4ce82182342faafbeb99786e4e425f@ringofsaturn.com>
References:  <b125726c2b23907bc4a2dc547ca8e091@bluelife.at> <fd4ce82182342faafbeb99786e4e425f@ringofsaturn.com>

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On Sat, 13 Mar 2010, Rusty Nejdl wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:21:14 +0100, Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at>
> wrote:
>> Grias di,
>>
>> we are preparing the VirtualBox 3.1.4 update to fix the vtophys 
>> problems with the current port on 9-CURRENT and STABLE kernels and 
>> need some feedback for this. Many thanks to all developers and 
>> testers that helped to track this issue down and Alexander Eichner 
>> for all the work and fixing it.
>>
>
> Bernhard,
>
> As with the previous version and this version, I continue to have 
> complete system freezes when using these machines.  The freezes seem 
> to occur during heavy disk usage (for example updating packages on 
> Ubuntu).  I am running:
>
> FreeBSD tethys.ringofsaturn.com 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Fri 
> Mar 12 10:39:31 CST 2010
> root@tethys.ringofsaturn.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATURN  amd64
>
> Kernel is from 2 days ago.  I am using the NVIDIA Video driver.
>
> There is absolutely nothing in the logs anywhere when the freeze 
> happens and I have to hit the power button.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this and any suggestions on how to debug?

You could try to see if this Nvidia patch (195.22 driver) helps although 
it is for when X is shutdown: 
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148622

Sean
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scf@FreeBSD.org



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