On Sunday 28 March 2010 4:28:29 am Masoom Shaikh wrote: > Hello List, > > I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since > then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard > boot. I guessed this will get solved in 8.0-RELEASE, but it was not :( > > Many times I get vmcore files, not always. I have dumpdev set to AUTO in my > rc.conf. Almost every time it just fsck's the file-system on reboot. I have > not lost any files though. This is a Dell Inspiron 1525 Laptop with 1GB ram, > Intel Core2 Duo T5500 with ATI Radeon X1400 card. The installation in > question is KDE4 from ports, with radeon/ati driver. > > I felt the problem is with wpi driver, then suspected dri driver of X. Then > I observed system freezes even if none of this is installed. e.g. if it is > under some load, like building a port and simultaneously fetching something > over network it hangs, and hangs hard. This persuaded me to think something > is wrong in kernel scheduling itself. May be it is lost in some deadlock, > etc... Thus last weekend I thought I would see how immediate previous > version i.e. FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE would behave. > > I reinstalled FreeBSD7.1 from iso images, svn up'ed FreeBSD7.3 source, did > the normal buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld cycle. > Unfortunatly this kernel is naughty as well ;-), it also freezes with same > stubbornness. But difference is this time I happen to catch something > interesting. > > It panics on NMI, fatal trap 19 while in kernel mode. Loaded the vmcore file > in kgdb and got the backtrace. I obtained vmcore files on two occasions. I > have attached both the back traces. This error most likely suggests hardware > error in RAM, but Windox7 and XP boot just fine and never caused any errors.
Yes, and note that the chipset has set a register to indicate a RAM parity error as well, so it is not a random NMI. Have you checked your BIOS' event log? You may also want to try running with machine checks enabled (hw.mca.enabled=1 in loader.conf, but it would have to be on very recent 7/8- stable) to see if you get machine checks for ECC errors. OTOH, if you do not have ECC memory then this will probably not help. > To verify if I have errors in my RAM I let run sysutils/memtest86+ > overnight, to double verify I also executed Windows Memory Diagnostic test > for four times. None of them reported errors. Can anyone here suggest any > solution. You can still have bad RAM even if those do not fail. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
