Solved stable/13 kernel panics (system crashes) and corrupted icons in applications such as Firefox and Thunderbird

[Cath O'Deray]

A poll for users of FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE only.

If you vote, please add a comment with outputs from these three commands:

1. freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
2. pkg info -x firefox thunderbird
3. pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled

Thanks.

Related:

1. examples of corruption at <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/555274>
2. Revert "vm_pageout_scans: correct detection of active object" · freebsd/freebsd-src@3261dea (2022-02-10)

 

[angry_vincent]

i getting corruption as mentioned in firefox buttons. i connect it to certain issues in drm-kmod, or linuxkpi changes. i having much more than that, reported in https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259670

 

[angry_vincent]

it could be tied to https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261773 from what i reading there.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Thanks,

261773

– is blocked by FreeBSD bug 261707 – panic: vm_page_free_prep: freeing mapped page 0xfffffe0006f80170 on 14-Current(master-n252892-e30fceb89b7); 261707 is the focus of the commit (2) above.

 

[angry_vincent]

i rebuilt system with above mentioned commits included ( it is also in stable/13 ) , will let it run for several days with elevated load on CPU/RAM

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Thanks, would you like to add your vote to the poll?

NB all voters, please:

If you vote, please add a comment with outputs from these three commands:

1. freebsd-version -kru ; uname -aKU
2. pkg info -x firefox thunderbird
3. pkg -vv | grep -e url -e enabled

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Thanks to respondents; no-one affected.

No-one added the requested comment, but I trust that each one of you based your vote on use of stable/13 (not RELEASE).

Bugs 261707 and 261773 were fixed on 17th February (ten days after the merge from CURRENT).

Topic solved.