On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Matt Smith wrote: > Since updating two of my machines to the latest HEAD I am experiencing a > total lockup on one of them. > > After being booted for approx 3 minutes the machine stops responding > completely. It doesn't panic or drop into DDB. The numlock key doesn't > toggle the keyboard light, and I can't drop it into DDB manually. > > I have full debugging options compiled in to this kernel as per the > usual -CURRENT GENERIC file. > > It's currently booted with the older kernel from the 16th and this is > stable as a rock. > > Anything else I can do to find the problem out or workaround it > considering it just hangs? > > The machine is a router running two 3com network cards (xl) and > IPFW/natd. It also has IPV6 with IP6FW, and a gif tunnel.
Any chance you could hook up a serial console, set BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER in kernel options, and see if a serial break drops you to DDB over serial? Under some circumstances a serial break can be more effective getting into the debugger than a console break. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
