Sporadic 9.0-RC2 boot-time panic

[Mike Andrews]

On 12/5/11 9:39 PM, Mike Andrews wrote:
> On 12/1/2011 6:03 PM, Mike Andrews wrote:
>> On 11/28/11 5:48 PM, Ronald Klop wrote:
>>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:37:27 +0100, Mike Andrews <mandrews at bit0.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> *Sometimes* when booting 9.0-RC2 on *some* of my machines, I'll get
>>>> one of the following two panics during multiuser startup, usually
>>>> while running the /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts. (The instruction
>>>> pointer is always exactly one of these two, and they look fairly
>>>> related.) If after two or three reboots it manages to not panic, the
>>>> system will run perfectly stable.
>>
> FYI this is still happening on 9.0-RC3 -- r228247 to be precise.
>
> It only seems to be happening on one particular model of motherboard 
> (Supermicro X8STi-F) but it is happening on several identical machines 
> with them -- running on several other (mostly Supermicro) boards is 
> just fine, including at least one with the exact same 82574L NICs.
>
> Whoever's wanting to work on this, contact me off-list to get some 
> more up to date console logs and the kernel config.

...or just look at the newly opened kern/163117 PR.