Random panics on new hardware

Ben Smithurst ben at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 28 09:23:36 BST 2004


I've been fairly out of touch with FreeBSD stuff for a while so I hope
you'll all excuse me asking a quick question here...

I've made the mistake of upgrading my terribly slow old computer to some
lovely new hardware -- now I get random panics (usually page fault, but
I've had a privileged instruction fault and a couple of pmap errors --
I can't remember them all exactly, since it's probably not a software
issue I haven't paid that much attention).

Most of the hardware is new (Asus A7V8X-X mainboard, AthlonXP 2500+ CPU,
512MB DDR 333 RAM (Crucial)) so I'm not sure where to start looking for
which bit might be faulty.  Memtest86 found no RAM faults.

The case was mega-cheap so it's possibly a PSU issue, but somehow I'd
expect the system to freeze/spontaneously reboot in that case rather
than complete a FreeBSD panic crash dump (until I turned the latter
off cos they take so long with 512MB RAM and a fairly slow old disk).
Although I could be mistaken about that.

Does anyone have any hints about where the problem could lie?  I've
searched around but not come up with much sadly.  I've included the
dmesg if that helps point out any problematic hardware.  If you need any
more info please just ask.

thanks
-ben

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FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE #2: Tue Apr 27 20:38:27 BST 2004
    ben at strontium.bcxs.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STRONTIUM
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+ (1822.51-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x6a0  Stepping = 0
  Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
  AMD Features=0xc0400000<AMIE,DSP,3DNow!>
real memory  = 536854528 (524272K bytes)
avail memory = 519438336 (507264K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0314000.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
Using $PIR table, 14 entries at 0xc00f1f40
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=1106 device=b168)> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <ATI model 5159 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
bktr0: <BrookTree 878> mem 0xef000000-0xef000fff irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0
iicbb0: <I2C bit-banging driver> on bti2c0
iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only
iicsmb0: <I2C to SMB bridge> on iicbus0
smbus0: <System Management Bus> on iicsmb0
smb0: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus0
iicbus1: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only
iicsmb1: <I2C to SMB bridge> on iicbus1
smbus1: <System Management Bus> on iicsmb1
smb1: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus1
smbus2: <System Management Bus> on bti2c0
smb2: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus2
bktr0: Hauppauge Model 38105 B435
bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips PAL I tuner.
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x109e, dev=0x0878) at 14.1 irq 10
uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 3 at device 16.0 on pci0
usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub0: port error, restarting port 1
uhub0: port error, giving up port 1
ums0: Logitech USB Mouse, rev 1.10/6.20, addr 2, iclass 3/1
ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir.
uhub0: port error, restarting port 2
uhub0: port error, giving up port 2
uhci1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 3 at device 16.1 on pci0
usb1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub1: port error, restarting port 1
uhub1: port error, giving up port 1
uhub1: port error, restarting port 2
uhub1: port error, giving up port 2
uhci2: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 3 at device 16.2 on pci0
usb2: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhub2: port error, restarting port 1
uhub2: port error, giving up port 1
uhub2: port error, restarting port 2
uhub2: port error, giving up port 2
pci0: <USB controller> at 16.3 irq 3
isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1106 device=3177)> at device 17.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <VIA 8235 ATA133 controller> port 0xa800-0xa80f at device 17.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
pcm0: <VIA VT8235> port 0xe000-0xe0ff irq 5 at device 17.5 on pci0
pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1980 AC97 Codec>
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1106, dev=0x3065) at 18.0 irq 9
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff,0xcc000-0xd1fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold
ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <EPSON Stylus COLOR 660> PRINTER ESCPL2,BDC
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
sc0: <System console> on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging limited to 1 packets/entry by default
DUMMYNET initialized (011031)
ad0: 28629MB <QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS30.0> [58168/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
vr0: <VIA VT6102 Rhine II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xed000000-0xed0000ff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:0e:a6:4d:82:e6
miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ip_fw_ctl: invalid command
Accounting suspended

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Ben Smithurst / ben at FreeBSD.org                 FreeBSD: The Power To Serve
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