On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jens Rehsack wrote:
after I updated my machine yesterday to the -CURRENT src/ and ports/ of
yesterday (2003-11-15 10:30 GMT), build kernel and world as described in
Kirks HEADSUP mail and rebuild all ports, my machine always crashes when
I start X.
My problem is, that I cannot determine the reason for the crashes, so I
cannot think about a workaround. Any hints are very welcome :-)
It doesn't matter if I start using gdm or startx from console, the
workstation switches to graphics mode and stops. I can press keys (eg.
numlock) and there're recognized, but it seems no action is taken. I
cannot kill the server using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't
reboot, typing 'reset' doesn't do anything and it's not possible to
remote login to the machine for clean reboot.
The machine answers ping requests and accept incoming packets. A
webserver is running on it and I can telnet to it, but the 'GET /
HTTP/1.0' isn't answered.
Hmm. This failure mode is fairly common when a resource deadlock or lock deadlock occurs in some kernel subsystems. Any chance you can get a serial console on the box so you can drop to DDB and generate some ps and stacktrace output?
It seems to me a little bit more complicated to setup the serial console, so: yes, I can do it, but not today. Or - if you have a small "quick get DDB to serial console without many trouble", I can give it a quick start. I'll try to do this week.
Jens
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