Re: Parallel port printing crashes 7.0 system

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Remko Lodder wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:50:37AM +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>>  On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I use a HP Deskjet 990 Cxi via parallel port with cups and hpijs driver on
>>>> FreeBSD pukruppa.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Sep 21
>>>> 16:52:59 CEST 2007 amd64
>>>> When I try to print a little bit more complex documents (OpenOffice, pdf)
>>>> my System will crash.
>>>> On my root terminal there will be a long list of
>>>> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
>>>> lpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>>>> lpt0: [ITHREAD]
>>>> [...]
>>>> lines, then some dumping activity and a reboot.
>>>> I upgraded to 7.0 last week, so all I can say is: everything was fine with
>>>> 6.2 .
>>>> Please tell me if you need more information.
>>>
>>> Well yeah, how about e.g. the actual details from the panic?
>>  How do I get them?
>>  Do I have to recompile my kernel (I put off debugging and Witness Options)?
>
> Hello,
>
> Check http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html for
> more information.
>
> Thanks
>
> -- 
> Kind regards,
>
>     Remko Lodder               ** remko_at_elvandar.org
Sorry, from developer's handbook I guess I should find a vmcore.N 
file. There isn't any. My parallel printing attempts end up in 
some kind of single user mode on the root terminal with a
 	db>
prompt. Can I do anything with that?

Uli.


Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany