Hey, Stable list-- I'm running 4.8 new install CVSup/make buildworld/buildkernel/etc. upped to the latest 4.9 sources as of about a week ago. I have a problem that pops up with nearly every reboot of my machine (Dell Inspiron 7500). When the system is booting, I get a line (that I gather is fairly common) that says "ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded". Unfortunately my computer most often decides to freeze (in the "I must turn the power off and back on" sense) before this line is displayed: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 *** FREEZE POINT *** ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded pccard: card inserted, slot 1 pccard: card removed, slot 1 Turning the power off and on *always* causes the computer to get past the freeze point and boot fully. I've tried adding and removing various devices from my kernel (at first I thought adding device pcm caused the problem, but removing it did not help...I removed the parallel port devices, which used to be initialized after the serial port devices, but that obviously did not help either since it now simply freezes after the serial devices). I don't know if it's somehow related to the pccard lines that follow it, since I'm certainly not inserting and removing devices as I boot up, but I figure that's likely just the slot initializing. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions I'd appreciate it. Also, one more issue. I'm running Gnome 2.4 with GDM. I can hit Reboot at the login screen and reboot just fine, but hitting Shut Down doesn't shut down the computer. Instead, X seems to quit, then get restarted, and then the screen goes blank (except that my display, while blank, is flickering very slightly). Pressing a bunch of Ctrl-Cs and Ctrl-Xs and Ctrl-Alt-Deletes gets it to reboot, but I'm not sure what's going on here. When this happens I cannot get to the console by Ctrl-Alt-F1 so I can't see what's happening. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks, Jeff
Jeff Mitchell wrote:> Hey, Stable list-- > > I'm running 4.8 new install CVSup/make buildworld/buildkernel/etc. upped to the latest 4.9 sources as of about a week ago. I have a problem that pops up with nearly every reboot of my machine (Dell Inspiron 7500). > > When the system is booting, I get a line (that I gather is fairly common) that says "ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded". Unfortunately my computer most often decides to freeze (in the "I must turn the power off and back on" sense) before this line is displayed: > > sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 > sio0: type 16550A > sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 > *** FREEZE POINT *** > ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded > pccard: card inserted, slot 1 > pccard: card removed, slot 1 > > Turning the power off and on *always* causes the computer to get past the freeze point and boot fully. I've tried adding and removing various devices from my kernel (at first I thought adding device pcm caused the problem, but removing it did not help...I removed the parallel port devices, which used to be initialized after the serial port devices, but that obviously did not help either since it now simply freezes after the serial devices). I don't know if it's somehow related to the pccard lines that follow it, since I'm certainly not inserting and removing devices as I boot up, but I figure that's likely just the slot initializing. > > If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions I'd appreciate it.Do you have one of those ATA devices on the secondary master that have different jumper settings for "Master: only thing on chain" and "Master: with Slave"? -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755
Hi Jeff, IMHO, there is not always a direct connection between the displayed message and problematic device(different initialization latencies). For example pccard on my laptop: I got them after the login prompt is displayed :) Try also a "boot -v", maybe you can pinpoint the problem. Did 4.8 work on your lap? Maybe you should include the ata0: ata1: displayed messages (got while you do a cold boot) to your question. Good luck /Dorin. --- jam6@cec.wustl.edu wrote:> Dorin-- > > My laptop has both a serial port and a parallel > port. I initially had > parallel port support in my kernel, and when it was > in there it was being > loaded after sio1. When this was the case, the > bootup never froze after > sio1, but it would instead freeze after the parallel > port info lines...and > again just before the ata-slave1 line. So I may try > taking out serial > port support fully but I don't at all think that is > the problem, because > it constantly freezes before the ata-slave1 line, > and does not seem to > depend on what exactly is immediately before it. > > When I remove the serial port and recompile I'll let > you know how it turns > out, but in the meantime if you have any other ideas > they'd be > appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > > --- Jeff Mitchell <jam6@cec.wustl.edu> wrote: > >> As it's a laptop I don't really know what the > jumper > >> settings are on the ATA > >> devices. I've looked in the BIOS but there's no > >> information in there > >> either. > >> > > > > <snip> > > > > Could it be the sio1? I would remove it or > disabled it > > from kernel. In my case, my Toshiba laptop > doesn't > > have serial/parallel ports and always hangs while > > booting. Disabling those solved all my problem, > though > > if you do have a second serial port, your problem > > could be different. 2c. > > /Dorin. > > > > > > > > ====> > /Dorin. > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > >====/Dorin. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com