Re: userland weirdness between r216351 and r216738

On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:35:05 +0100
René Ladan <rene_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> somewhere between 9.0-amd64 r216351 and r216738, I've noticed some
> userland weirdness.
> Symptoms are:
> - pseudo-random number generator not starting, preventing ssh(d) from
> working
> - fonts in X.org (xfce4) missing or replaced
> - mouse only working when hald is running
> 
> I don't know if the above symptoms are somehow related, or what
> causes them. The kernel is GENERIC without (u)lpt and umass and with
> these modules loaded: fdescfs.ko
>  if_iwn.ko
>  snd_hda.ko
>  sound.ko
>  umass.ko
>  iwn5000fw.ko
>  nvidia.ko (256.53)
>  linux.ko
>  cuse4bsd.ko
>  atapicam.ko
>  linprocfs.ko
> 
> Kernel and world are compiled with
> FreeBSD clang version 2.8 (tags/RELEASE_28 115870) 20101007
> 
> Reverting to r216351 (kernel, world, mergemaster) brought things back
> to normal. I can do a binary search if desired. Did someone else also
> see this?
> 
> Happy 2011,
> Rene

Try backing out rtld down to version prior to this commit
http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/216695 . There is an issue with
rtld's use of SSE on amd64 which will be fixed soon.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev