Subject: Re: uvm panic?
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 01/27/2001 15:27:32
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:06:13PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:04:46PM -0600, Ted Lemon wrote:
> > 
> > I may have this one as well - it seems to happen if ntpd is running,
> > and the panic is in pmap_unwire.   Apologies for not chiming in before
> > - I'm really skimming my email, and didn't notice what was being
> > discussed.   I'm airborne right now and can't look at the PR, so I
> > don't know if it's the same panic, but if it is, I'd be more than
> > happy to help debug it - it happens to me probably three of every four
> > shutdowns if I don't kill -9 ntpd before shutting down.
> 
> Just another data point: still with same Jan 21 world, all froze when I just
> did a "kill `cat /var/run/ntpd.pid`" (no -KILL) - was running X, so didn't
> see anything..

Narrowing it down: on i386 box of 11 Sep vintage, replaced kernel and libc
with 21 Jan versions, all OK. Replaced ntpd binary, not OK (freeze on shutdown,
though not on kill just before (odd))

Patrick