Re: 2.8/i386 fxp lockup problems

[Ben Smith <spy@ben.owns.com>]

Whole machine, excluding serial console.  

 -Ben Smith

On 2 Jan 2001, Artur Grabowski wrote:

> Ben Smith <spy@ben.owns.com> writes:
> 
> > The problem does not always drop into ddb like that, sometimes the machine
> > just locks and I have to send a break to the serial console.  At that point
> > this is the traceback I get:
> > 
> > telnet> send brk
> > Stopped at      _Debugger+0x4:  movl    %ebp,%esp
> > ddb> trace
> > _Debugger(80000000,e0101dc0,3455ef03,82,e06120a4) at _Debugger+0x4
> > _comsoft(10,10,3455ef03,0,e8ebece4) at _comsoft+0xbd
> > Bad frame pointer: 0xe8ebec6c
> 
> Does the whole machine lock up solid or is it just the fxp that doesn't
> respond?
> 
> I'm working on a solution for pr 1317 that locks up the fxp driver if a
> certain sequence of commands are issued to it. A workaround you can try
> is to disable INET6 in your kernel config. But I've never seen crashes
> because of this problem.
> 
> //art
>