Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-11-09 13:20, Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com> wrote: > >>I've been having issues lately when trying to bring up a new interface. >> It's a hard problem to actually see, because it makes my machine >>instantly reboot. >> >>Here's what I see: >>Normally, I use ath0 for wireless, and occasionally I use em0. >>Recently, when I was at a location with no wireless and no dhcp support, >>I powered up my laptop, plugged in to em0, and did an ifconfig em0 xxx. >> After a few seconds, the system spontaneously reboots. I figured >>out that killing dhclient on that interface before attempting to >>manually configure it helped. >> >>Now, I also tried to connect using ppp to a GPRS network (via bluetooth >>through my cell phone). This used to work just fine, probably a few >>months ago. This time, I killed all dhclients, connected the bluetooth >>pieces, and then ran rfcomm_pppd, which creates a tun0 interface. When >>the interface was created, and brought up without dhclient, everything >>worked ok. When I accidentally left dhclient running, and tun0 was >>created, when the device got it's IP address, machine rebooted. >> >>I have various machine logs/dmesg/etc here: >>http://www.googlebit.com/freebsd/ >>(labeled by date - look for the most current versions) >> >>I'm running 7.0-CURRENT as of a few days ago. > > > How many days? You need at least a version that includes the following > commit, otherwise you may have problems with ACPI or mbuf allocation: > > % glebius 2005-11-06 16:47:59 UTC > % > % FreeBSD src repository > % > % Modified files: > % sys/kern kern_mbuf.c > % Log: > % Fix panic string in last revision. > % > % Revision Changes Path > % 1.15 +1 -1 src/sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c As of Monday, Nov 7th, and I've just checked, and I am indeed using this later version. It happened both before, and after this commit. It's pretty reproduceable, so I can do it anything, but fsck'ing my disks each time begins to get old :) If there's something I can do to help get some debugging, tell me. Since it's an insta-boot, I'm not sure how to catch that. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Thu Nov 10 2005 - 12:46:27 UTC
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