Hi there; I am running FreeBSD-11.1-RC1 on an old Pentium3 machine with 512MB RAM. The device also has a USB-2.0 PCI expansion card where I attached a USB-3.0 sdcard reader by Transcend. Now what I am doing is mount slice 3 (MBR) on that card as /mnt, and unpack a previously created tarball containing a custom freebsd build for arm. Tarball is about 900MB in size, and then gzipped with -9 to 300MB. I was using an SSH session to perform the unpacking, and after a while the console showed errors: root@pentium3:/mnt # tar -xpf /usr/local/samba/clearfog/freebsd-clearfog-20170702.tar.gz usr/: Can't create 'usr' usr/lib/: Can't create 'usr/lib' usr/libexec/: Can't create 'usr/libexec' usr/libdata/: Can't create 'usr/libdata' ...... Once I noticed the situation, the machine was already halfway through rebooting, and the SSH client eventually realized that the session was dead. I have seen this behaviour before with FreeBSD as a guest to VirtualBox, with that *same* cardreader and card attached via usb-passthrough! (But I didn't collect any data back then). So a crashdump was saved in /var/crash: -rw------- 1 root wheel 191M Jul 3 01:05 vmcore.0 https://vps.jm0.eu/box/sdcardcrash1.core https://vps.jm0.eu/box/sdcardcrash1.core.xz Let me know if you need further details.
It just crashed again, this time while I cleaned up, by mounting the disk as /mnt, and rm -rf'ing all the stuff there. root@pentium3:/mnt # rm -rf COPYRIGHT bin boot dev etc lib libexec media mnt net proc rescue root sbin sys tmp rm: etc/portsnap.conf: Device not configured rm: etc/devfs.conf: Device not configured rm: etc/X11: Directory not empty rm: etc/libalias.conf: Device not configured ......... crashdump: -rw------- 1 root wheel 188M Jul 3 02:54 vmcore.1 https://vps.jm0.eu/box/sdcardcrash2.core https://vps.jm0.eu/box/sdcardcrash2.core.xz
To rule out sources of trouble, I switched the sdcard, and connected the reader to the onboard USB port (which I believe is 1.1 ...) and did the same process ... and it crashed. This time though it was les verbose: root@pentium3:/mnt # tar -xpf /usr/local/samba/clearfog/freebsd-clearfog-20170702.tar.gz packet_write_wait: Connection to 192.168.0.7 port 22: Broken pipe crashdump: -rw------- 1 root wheel 189M Jul 3 03:45 vmcore.2 https://vps.jm0.eu/box/sdcardcrash3.core https://vps.jm0.eu/box/sdcardcrash3.core.xz
Version CURRENT means 12 (in other words: head) FreeBSD-11.1-RC1 is not an example of CURRENT but is what you report in the description. The wrong people may look at this in the wrong time frame if they use Version to filter what they look at. FreeBSD-11.1 does not have all that much time left before it turns official and freezes. I do not have permission to adjust Version. As far as I can tell the best selection for 11 after 11.0-RELEASE is 11.0-STABLE. Unfortunately the code freeze on stable/11 probably ended today so even with listing 11.0-STABLE the relationship would be less clear in the Version then one would hope.
(In reply to Mark Millard from comment #3) Thanks for clearing that up! I set it to 11.0-STABLE now, and will update it as a new option becomes available.