On my older Dell 2400 and 2500 systems I have been setting devd_enable="NO" to avoid panicing the systems. Now I when I updated to 7.2p5 the following sysctl seems to panic the system at will. sysctl hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 I have removed /etc/rc.d/devd completely to get the system to boot into multiuser. I have a GENERIC Kernel and nothing in make.conf. I enabled set -x in rc.conf and rebooted to get this back trace Does anyone have any ideas why this happens or what patch I might try to fix it? Thanks, Ken Here is backtrace <118>eval <118> _value=$devd_enable <118> <118>+ <118>_value=NO <118> <118>+ <118>debug <118> checkyesno: devd_enable is set to NO. <118> <118>+ <118>return <118> 1 <118> <118>+ <118>sysctl <118> hw.bus.devctl_disable=1 <118> <118>hw.bus.devctl_disable: <118>0 Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 1; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0xff000008 fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc080a1fa stack pointer = 0x28:0xefc07b34 frame pointer = 0x28:0xefc07b54 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 current process = 406 (sysctl) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 1 Uptime: 6m45s Physical memory: 2035 MB Dumping 69 MB: 54 38 22 6 Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko...Reading symbols from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko.symbols...done. done. Loaded symbols for /boot/kernel/acpi.ko #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 196 __asm __volatile("movl %%fs:0,%0" : "=r" (td)); (kgdb) bt #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:196 #1 0xc07e25f7 in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:418 #2 0xc07e28c9 in panic (fmt=Variable "fmt" is not available. ) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:574 #3 0xc0ae3f2c in trap_fatal (frame=0xefc07af4, eva=4278190088) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:939 #4 0xc0ae41b0 in trap_pfault (frame=0xefc07af4, usermode=0, eva=4278190088) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:852 #5 0xc0ae4b5c in trap (frame=0xefc07af4) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:530 #6 0xc0ac926b in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:159 #7 0xc080a1fa in sysctl_devctl_disable (oidp=0xc0c546e0, arg1=0x0, arg2=0, req=0xefc07ba4) at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_bus.c:733 #8 0xc07ebe97 in sysctl_root (oidp=Variable "oidp" is not available. ) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:1413 #9 0xc07ec034 in userland_sysctl (td=0xc5949d20, name=0xefc07c14, namelen=3, old=0x0, oldlenp=0x0, inkernel=0, new=0xbfbfee64, newlen=4, retval=0xefc07c10, flags=0) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:1506 #10 0xc07ec184 in __sysctl (td=0xc5949d20, uap=0xefc07cfc) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:1443 #11 0xc0ae4505 in syscall (frame=0xefc07d38) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:1090 #12 0xc0ac92d0 in Xint0x80_syscall () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:255 #13 0x00000033 in ?? () Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) (kgdb)