glj@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Gordon Johnson) (04/26/89)
I'm experiencing system crashes with the error message panic: sleep. I have a 3/260, servering 6 clients. I have just reinstalled unix using setup and this error continues. If anybody is able to give me some leads in solving this problem I would much appreciate their response. Thank you in advance. Gordon Johnson Boeing Computer Services (glj@atc.boeing.com)
joerg@uunet.uu.net (Joerg Schilling) (05/17/89)
The message "panic: sleep" means that the kernel sleep() has been called
from within an interrupt routine. This is normally the done by bad device
driver. First check, if you are using a generic kernel i.e. no driver
installed which is not written by sun. If the bug is still there try to
boot kadb and type $c after the crash: you will see a stack trace from the
kernel including the routine which called sleep().
I hope that helps you in finding the bad guy tha calls sleep().
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