Subject: Re: current instability
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 09/19/2007 10:52:31
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:30:46PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> [sorry lost in-reply-to]
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:13:58AM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> > > Are you using LFS, by chance?  Could you build a DIAGNOSTIC/DEBUG
> > > kernel (and LOCKDEBUG if it's multiprocessor) and see if you can get
> > > any more information?
> >
> > I'm not using LFS. Here goes with adding diag/debug etc...
> >
> > > Have you run -current on this machine before 4.99.30 and found it to
> > > be stable?
> >
> > It is still 4.99.29 (QUARTZ) #538 - all of a week old! OK - I'll update...
> > To be honest, I thought I was running a diagnostic kernel, but was wrong..
> 
> Freeze again, this time with kernel of Sep 3 9:44 GMT. diagnostic/debug/
> lockdebug defined, ddb.onpanic = 0, but no panic:
>   responds to ping
>   telnet gets connection refused (correct)
>   ssh hangs after exchanging first packet - would it have to access
>     filesystem thereafter?
> 
> Ho hum, still no clues..

Update: box has been running stable - I think since sys_generic.c
rev 1.106, but a load of libpthread fixes also went in on 6th Sept
(Thanks ad!) so it's hard to tell.

Cheers,

Patrick