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graudeejs
November 20th, 2008, 18:15
I have encrypted my disk with GELI. AES 128 and some slices AED 256.
during boot sometimes, kernel panics, ever since i encrypted my drives.
It happens almost once a day, when i boot pc (especially if pc haven't been on for a while, but that might be coincidence).

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killasmurf86 $ uname -a
FreeBSD killasmurf86.lv 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Nov 19 23:53:22 EET 2008 killasmurf86@killasmurf86.lv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/killabsd i386


here's dmesg (http://pastebin.com/f7e43f813)
richardpl
November 20th, 2008, 18:26
Few things you can try:

0. Wait until someone reproduce this and fix it.
1. Rebuild kernel with ddb:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-online-ddb.html
and try to generate backtrack once panic happen.
It is possible to automate this process with textdumps and /etc/ddb.conf

Explore textdump(4) and ddb(4) or even better explore whole developers handbook.
Djn
November 20th, 2008, 19:18
If you haven't already got it in loader.conf , try setting kern.geom.eli.threads to "1" in the loader.

Random googling suggest that this fixes some SMP-related page faults in geli. I don't know if it applies to 7.0-RELEASE or if it's the cause of your problem, but it seems worth testing.
graudeejs
November 20th, 2008, 19:38
If you haven't already got it in loader.conf , try setting kern.geom.eli.threads to "1" in the loader.

Random googling suggest that this fixes some SMP-related page faults in geli. I don't know if it applies to 7.0-RELEASE or if it's the cause of your problem, but it seems worth testing.

I will investigate, but i can only report in 1 or 2 days, as today it won't crash (i bet)
trasz@
December 9th, 2008, 15:05
I will investigate, but i can only report in 1 or 2 days, as today it won't crash (i bet)

And? Did it help?
graudeejs
December 10th, 2008, 21:38
nope, it didn't help
sorry that it took me so long to reply
trasz@
December 10th, 2008, 23:16
nope, it didn't help
sorry that it took me so long to reply

No problem, we all have this Real Life thing :-)

Could you try to obtain backtrace and post it here?
graudeejs
December 11th, 2008, 01:01
i can try, if you give me link to some quick how to on how to do it.... lol

it might take a week to respond, because i have a lot going on atm at university