On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:01:04PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:18, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I try to find bugs in 6.2-PRERELEASE by using it (q) :-) > > The question is: are kernel options WITNESS/WITNESS_KDB expected > > to be in usable kernel? I don't worry about performance overhead here. > > > > The problem is, I've found this is nearly impossible to run > > my home system with RELENG_6 build from yesterday's sources, > > X.org 6.9.0, mplayer etc. without panicing and crashdump generation > > after an hour or so. Just switch from X to vty and logon gave me another > > LOR and crashdump. One of these you can see here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/107455 > > > > Perhaps, I should not use these options for everyday STABLE use? > > > > Eugene > > I think you are running into devfs bugs actually.
I would suggest that the problem may be in the nvidia driver instead. It seems to be related to dev cloning. Anyway, obtaining exact location of fault in devfs_populate_loop (either with crashdump/kgdb or manually) would be first step.
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