Re: problems with -current

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 05:04 pm, Mark Atkinson wrote:
> 
>>Rainer Alves wrote:
>>
>>>On 11/29/05, Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin_at_savvis.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>dear hackers,
>>>>
>>>>after cvsup'ing recent current (as of yesterday evening pst) and
>>>>building/installing new kernel/world i started having problems:
>>>>
>>>>problem 1: startx simply reboots my laptop. i can see x coming up, then
>>>>after just a few seconds my laptop reboots. no window manager, no
>>>>nothing. my laptop is a dell with some radeon video card. will provide
>>>>more details on request.
>>>>
>>>>problem 2: when system is booted and filesystem is not clean fsck is
>>>>started and checks all dirty filesystems. then boot process continues as
>>>>usual, however root filesystem is still mounted read-only, i.e.
>>>>
>>>>--->  /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, read-only)  <---
>>>>devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
>>>>/dev/ad0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>>>>/dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>>>>/dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)
>>>>linprocfs on /usr/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)
>>>>devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local)
>>>>
>>>>so, anyone sees this as well or its just me.
>>>>
>>>>thanks,
>>>>max
>>>
>>>Same thing here.. it's probably related to the huge DRM changes
>>>commited yesterday by anholt_at_.
>>>I'll try to enable some debugging stuff and see what's going on...
>>
>>I just cvsup'd to 2005.11.28.23.00.00, rebuilt and reinstalled, which
>>should be just before the commit:
>>
>>anholt      2005-11-28 23:13:57 UTC
>>
>>and starting X still reboots my machine.  I'm reverting the kernel now
>>to 8am UTC from the 28th, and if that still fails I'm going back about 7
>>to 10 days.
> 
> Hook up a serial console so you can see the panic message.  Make sure kdb/ddb, 
> etc. are in your kernel so you can get a trace.

the box is out and out resetting.  I already have ddb, etc.. (which is 
why I noticed the LOR on so_snd earlier with the same kernel.   Will 
setting up comconsole on this box really give me a panic and not reset 
with X running?

-Mark