Re: repeatable crash with 5.4-RELEASE and PAE

2005-08-01 Thread dpk
As seen here: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/ad8029efaa6efe95/8f3269d6819ef0b8?lnk=st&q=panic+vm_pageout+fork_trampoline+fork_exit+freebsd+5.4&rnum=1&hl=en#8f3269d6819ef0b8 If you'd prefer, I can mail this to another list, in case stable isn't appr

Kernel debugging, 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-02 Thread dpk
What method do kernel developers employ to debug kernel panics? The gdb that comes with 5.4-RELEASE does not have kernel debugging support and the handbook appears to be out of date with regards to KDB. I'm trying to use another gdb, out of ports, that has kernel debugging support but I'm getting

Re: Kernel debugging, 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-02 Thread dpk
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mitch Parks wrote: > man kgdb > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html Thank you. I'm using kgdb now, and I get the following error: $ kgdb -r /dev/cuaa0 kernel.debug [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib

Re: Kernel debugging, 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-02 Thread dpk
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, dpk wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Mitch Parks wrote: > > > man kgdb > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html > > Thank you. I'm using kgdb now, and I get the following error: > > $ kgdb -r

Re: Kernel debugging, 5.4-RELEASE

2005-08-02 Thread dpk
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Frank McConnell wrote: > I've been using plain bog-standard /usr/bin/gdb, not out of lack > of knowledge of kgdb but because I also find that kgdb fails with > a segmentation fault after connecting. Ah, OK. That solves part of the problem. > If I'm getting more stuff out of m

Re: RELENG_5 PAE panic

2005-08-06 Thread dpk
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Frank McConnell wrote: > Further debugging led me to the conclusion that the problem is in > pmap_protect(), in src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c; and has to do with a > 32-bit-truncated pt_entry_t being passed to PHYS_TO_VM_PAGE(). > (pt_entry_t is 64 bits if the kernel is built with P

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread dpk
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Now that my shiny new 9500S is installed and not fighting for IRQs, I've > created and initialized a ~2.5TB array using the bios utility. So the > next step is mounting the new array. > > I naively tried following the regular handbook instructions for

Re: Create 2.5TB file system on 5.4S?

2005-08-15 Thread dpk
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > Any suggestions? Are there specialized raid test suites or should I just > write a script that writes/deletes a lot of files? That's what I did -- lots of dds running with high block sizes, filling the partition, then forcing an unclean flag (umount,

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread dpk
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Now, on one of our newer servers runnign a fairly recent cvsup of 4.x, the > fxp driver is doing the exact same thing ... all the other fxp based > servers do a nice quick 'ifconfig alias' for an IP, and arp broadcasts are > sent out, but on this one,

Re: broken fxp driver in 4.x ...

2005-08-22 Thread dpk
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Can you try having your network guys enable 'portfast' on your server > > port, and then see if adding an IP alias still causes the hang? > > I'd love to, but I know nothing about the Cisco switches other then the > very bare minimal ... if you can