Subject: Re: Completely useless report on disk lockups
To: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
From: Joseph A. Dacuma <jadacuma@ched.gov.ph>
List: current-users
Date: 01/18/2007 07:04:28
Hi Fujinaka San!

> Any hints on how to debug this would be appreciated, but I'm getting
> fairly repeatable disk lockups with i386-current. With all the thread
> changes I don't doubt that something odd is happening, but this is on
> fairly new hardware that I'm not quite sure is working completely right.
>
> Any hints on how to debug this would be appreciated. Sometimes it drops
> into the debugger, sometimes it just plain hangs. The kernel I built
> yesterday seems fine.
>

I also get a similar of error however on stable branch. This is also an
SMP machine:

NetBSD 3.1_STABLE (config_orange1) #0: Tue Jan  9 17:01:46 UTC 2007
        root@tange.yagitnet.org:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/config_orange1
total memory = 511 MB
avail memory = 496 MB
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfdb50
mainbus0 (root)
mainbus0: Intel MP Specification (Version 1.1) (INTEL    440GX       )

----snip----

Jan 16 03:52:50 tange /netbsd: sd1(ahc0:0:1:0):  Check Condition on CDB:
0x2a 00
 01 9f 0d 5f 00 00 20 00
Jan 16 03:52:50 tange /netbsd: SENSE KEY:  Aborted Command
Jan 16 03:52:50 tange /netbsd: ASC/ASCQ:  SCSI Parity Error
Jan 16 03:52:50 tange /netbsd: FRU CODE:  0x8
Jan 16 03:52:50 tange /netbsd:
Jan 16 03:52:50 tange /netbsd: sd1(ahc0:0:1:0):  Check Condition on CDB:
0x2a 00
 01 f4 3b cd 00 00 20 00
Jan 16 03:52:50 tange /netbsd: SENSE KEY:  Aborted Command

--snip--

I ran a Seagate disk utility and all tests were OK. All I remember was
when the machine was compiling Seamonkey and running build.sh (two
instances). It just paused then I saw on the first terminal that I went
onto the debugger mode.The sad thing is I dont know how to recreate the
same error again.

Is there a way/guide if this thing happens again to save a backtrace to
say usb thumb drive or floppy disk?


Regards,

Joseph