Stefan Teleman wrote: > I've been running this HAL for a year now, on S10U4 and U5, and it > doesn't panic the kernel, and it doesn't cause hard drive clunks. HAL > is a userland application anyway.
It was the floppy drive (with no diskette inside) that was making a noise (and the LED coming on). Looked to me like it was being polled or something. > There should be something printed in /var/adm/messages. Looks like a mutex problem when trying to mount something. Mar 23 07:54:27 tryfan genunix: [ID 882269 kern.info] PIO mode 4 selected Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice] Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan ^Mpanic[cpu2]/thread=ffffffff84ea6be0: Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 103648 kern.notice] recursive mutex_enter, lp=fffffffffbc9ccf0 owner=ffffffff84ea6be0 thread=ffffffff84ea6be0 Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan unix: [ID 100000 kern.notice] Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7b80 unix:mutex_panic+6f () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7be0 unix:mutex_vector_enter+2e4 () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7c20 genunix:pollwakeup+34 () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7c50 genunix:port_send_event+ce () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7c90 genunix:pollwakeup+75 () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7cb0 genunix:vfs_mnttab_modtimeupd+6a () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7cd0 genunix:vfs_swapopttbl+2c () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7e00 genunix:domount+462 () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7e80 genunix:mount+105 () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7ec0 genunix:syscall_ap+97 () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 655072 kern.notice] fffffe80012d7f10 unix:brand_sys_syscall32+1a3 () Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan unix: [ID 100000 kern.notice] Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 672855 kern.notice] syncing file systems... Mar 23 07:55:56 tryfan genunix: [ID 904073 kern.notice] done Mar 23 07:55:57 tryfan genunix: [ID 111219 kern.notice] dumping to /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/dump, offset 65536, content: kernel Mar 23 07:56:14 tryfan genunix: [ID 409368 kern.notice] ^M100% done: 100409 pages dumped, compression ratio 3.42, Mar 23 07:56:14 tryfan genunix: [ID 851671 kern.notice] dump succeeded vold.log is also complaining about the floppy drive: Mon Mar 23 07:54:15 2009 warning: floppy: open of /dev/rdiskette0; Device busy A+ Paul
