[haiku] Re: bug tracker advice plse

  • From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:11:31 +0200

Hi Nigel,

2009/9/18 Nigel Malthus <malthi@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Hi Nigel,
>>
>> 2009/9/18 Nigel Malthus <malthi@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Possble bug and question of etiquette:
>> > I'm getting consistent kernel panics evidently associated with the
>> > media checker thread, every time my cd drawer closes.
>> >
>> > I can't see it mentioned already in Trac, after searching as well
>> > as I
>> > can.
>> >
>> > But this is revision 32959, dated Sept 6. Is it poor form to post a
>> > bug
>> > about an old revision? I don't intend upgrading to Alpha until I
>> > can
>> > get a physical cd from CafePress.
>> >
>> > And apart from the initial message, what else would be helpful?
>> > syslog?
>> > Kdl looks daunting but is there something obvious/easy for me to do
>> > to
>> > capture useful debug data?
>>
>> Could you dump the initial message here? It might be in the ATA
>> driver, in which case it is better to see if the problem still exists
>> in the apha 1 (because a lot of changes have been made to the ATA
>> code
>> between then and the alpha). If it's another problem then you might
>> create a bug report with your 'older' build. So let's see if we can
>> find out where the issue is.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Niels
> It says:
> page fault but interrupts were disabled touching address 0x00000010
> from eip 0x000428cc
> Thread 25 "media checker" running on CPU0
>
> this on a single-core Pentium III
> I have two optical drives, a cd drive on /dev/disk/atapi/1/master
> and a dvd/cd writer on dev/disk/atapi/1/slave.
> It only happens on the master, but I haven't tried fiddling the jumpers
> to see it if stays on the master even if the physical drives are
> swapped around.
> Doesn't matter if there's a disk in the drive or not.

I hope someone on this list can help you on doing a backtrace (I don't
remember how exactly). With that backtrace you can open a new bug
report.

Kind regards,

N>

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