On 30 November 2009 20:20, Doug Ambrisko <ambri...@ambrisko.com> wrote: > pluknet writes: > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > | 2009/11/6 Doug Ambrisko <ambri...@freebsd.org>: > | > Author: ambrisko > | > Date: Fri Nov ?6 17:58:44 2009 > | > New Revision: 198994 > | > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198994 > | > > | > Log: > | > ?MFC: Merge in minimal 5709/5716 support into 6.X extracted from current. > | > ?This is not a direct merge since I tried to only extra the changes to > | > ?support the 5709 from all of the other changes that have happened in > | > ?head. ?This should not introduce any issues that the other changes may > | > ?have caused. ?We have been running this code for months on Dell r710's. > | > ?It has been lightly tested on systems with 5716's. > | > > | > ?This is to allow people to run newer hardware on 6.X. > | > | Very nice. Thank you. > | > | I'm afraid not all the chunks were merged since I cannot run on 6.x > | with my BCM5709. > | > | FreeBSD 7.2 - works > | FreeBSD 6.4-stable - does not > | > | It locks up somewhere in the late stage of multiuser (usually in a > | random step of rc.d) and getty cannot take the control. > | Here it still pings via network, I can achieve ssh stage where ssh > | warns me "The authenticity of host '$HOST' can't be established." > | If I type "yes", then it stops here and no go. After return from ddb > | it stops even ping until next reboot. > | > | I use boot via NFS/PXE, so it may interfere there, since rc.d usually > | write something to disk, which is NFS-mounted here. > | So it probably could run fine if booting from a local disk (I can't > | test this setup). > > You might try to instrument the rc stuff even though you mention it > appears random. Might try to make sure that it isn't re-initializing > the network or something like that. I tried with a fresh checkout > of 6-stable and I PXE booted it fine. A side note is that Dell's > have a bug with their uarts starting with the 2950 rev 2 in which > the TX does work with the speed that we do the reset. RX works > fine so you can recover it with a {Ctrl}d since it doesn't always > fail. > > | I've attached dmesg (doesn't differs much from 7.2) and some ddb output > below. > | Looking in alltrace I see no obvious lockups, no nfs stuck. But > | sometimes sh stucks somewhere in nfsreq. > | > | The same box boots fine via NFS on different NFS setup with 7.2, > | a different (in h/w) box boots fine on these NFS setup and NFS root, > | so no mistakes in setup part. > | > | I remember that back to August I tried to boot 6.4 with what is in bce > | of RELENG_7 on this box and it booted fine and I xmitted some traffic > | with it. > | So I guess the problem is in NFS-boot. > | > | I'll try to find ways to boot the system locally and report back.. > > I didn't see anything in the logs. > > Doug A. >
For archives: It tried to boot 6.4-STABLE one more time recently and all's fine. Shame on me and sorry for noise. -- wbr, pluknet _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
