On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Bruce Cran wrote: > I've had a problem with my DVD and CDRW drives under FreeBSD from 4.5 > onwards. In released prior to 4.7 I used to get panics, I think when the system >had heavy I/O loads, such as when building world - I thought this may have been due >to the VIA controller. I installed DP2, and on one of the > boots, got: > > acd0: REQUEST_SENSE command timeout - resetting > ata1: resetting devices > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault trap address = 0x0 > fault code = Supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0151ca2 > stack pointer = 0x10:0xd68e3c5c > frame pointer = 0x10:0xd68e3c70 > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type = 0x16 > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 l, gran 1 > > processor eflags = interrupt enable resume, IOPL=0 > current process = 13 (swi6:clock) > trap number = 12 > panic : page fault
This is a null ptr deref, most likely in the kern proc that calls the timeout handlers (since curproc is clock int.) No idea what would cause this. > Another possible bug I've found is in df. I compiled a kernel then, > before overwriting the old backup, I tried running cp -ivR kernel.old > kernel.old.orig, forgetting that /boot wouldn't have enough free space. > When I next ran 'df -h' /boot was reporting -6MB free. I deleted > /boot/kernel.old.orig and the free space was correctly reported again, > but is this a bug in df? My filesytem is UFS1. No, this is correct since there is space reserved for root (see tunefs minfree) > how would I go about throttling it? Are there any IOCTLs, or is this > feature only for laptops where they automatically get throttled when > running on batteries? I know it probably doesn't make sense on a > desktop computer, but I'm interested - ACPI support seems brilliant, and > although hibernation doesn't seem to work, all the other features work > perfectly. man acpi, see also sysctl hw.acpi -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
