Re: Crash on CURRENT from today

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:18:30 -0800
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:14:20AM +0100, Daniel Eriksson wrote:
> Doug White wrote:
> 
> > > Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
> > 
> > these are bad news.  The only times I've seen this is with 
> > horrifically
> > broken code or hardware problems.  Mostly hardware problems.  
> > You might
> > check the environmentals on your system, and check the event 
> > log for any
> > ECC correction events or other abnormal behavior.  Normal code isn't
> > likely to trigger GPFs.
> > 
> > Did you compile the kernel with any non-standard options?
> 
> The machine has been running pretty solid for the last couple of months.
> This of course doesn't mean it's not a hardware problem. I'll know for sure
> in a couple of days I guess (if it keeps crashing with strange errors).
> 
> Kernel/world is compiled only with standard flags. Nothing in make.conf
> except "CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp" (which means -O2 is used). I reverted back to a
> non-debug kernel a few weeks ago when the makefiles were changed to only use
> -O for debug-kernels. However, after switching mpsafenet back on (replaced
> NFS (which locked up for me with mpsafenet) with geom_gate) I have some
> spare cycles to burn on the machine. I might as well use a debug-kernel in
> case this isn't a hardware problem.

FYI, a patch for a deadlock condition in NFS was committed yesterday.
It would be great if you can test this out.

Kris

Received on Sat Feb 19 2005 - 23:18:32 UTC

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