Core dumps...

[YONETANI Tomokazu]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:02:48PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
> :> :[ adamk at sorrow - ~ ]: gnome-terminal 
> :> :Fatal error 'gc cannot wait for a signal' at line ? in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_gc.c (errno = ?)
> :> :Abort trap (core dumped)
> :> :
> :> :Same for mozilla, thunderbird, firefox, etc..
> :> :
> :> :I left my machine, brushed my teeth, came back, and suddenly it's working again.  Any ideas what happened? 
> :> :
> :> :Adam
> :> 
> :>...
> :
> :I'm seeing this too when my laptop resumed from suspended state, and my
> :workaround is to adjust your system clock (with ntpdate for instance)
> :a few times. You'll get "Invalid argument" error from ntpdate, but just ignore
> :it and try a few times.
> 
>     Well, they say a fresh look always helps, and it looks like that
>     is true.  In about 5 seconds I found an overflow in the
>     'cputimer_freq64_nsec * delta' calculations in kern_clock.c.
> 
>     It turns out that cputimer_freq_nsec is such a large number that
>     it doesn't take a delta much larger then cputimer_freq to overflow
>     it, and the delta calculation can certainly exceed cputimer_freq
>     due to all sorts of reasons... interrupt latency, blockages, and other
>     things.  laptop resumption only being one of them.
> 
>     So I would like both of you to please try this patch and tell me what
>     happens.
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Index: kern_clock.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/kern_clock.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.24
> diff -u -r1.24 kern_clock.c
> --- kern_clock.c	17 Sep 2004 00:18:09 -0000	1.24
> +++ kern_clock.c	11 Nov 2004 19:53:13 -0000
> @@ -279,10 +279,14 @@

Matt, it looks to me like this is already committed as rev 1.25
as part of VFS stage 9/99. I'm going to build and install
new kernel anyway and see whatever happens.