Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:19:55 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2 Problem possibly I/O related Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102062117570.4182-100000@shazam.int> In-Reply-To: <14975.45044.295769.589613@guru.mired.org>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> types: > > Due to the nature of this problem, I can't do any tracing. > > > > I have noticed several times since upgrading to 4.2-RELEASE > > that the system will just "freeze". > > > > When this happens, you can still ping the IP of the machine > > on the local network, but you cannot get a telnet or ftp connection. > [...] > > This could, of course, be a hardware problem that is creeping up, > > This seems most likely. > > Since the kernel is answering pings, it's still running. Getting a > stack trace of what's going on when this happens would be very > useful. Read the handbook section about On-line kernel debugging using > DDB <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/x18654.html > for > information on how to do that. > I'll do that. If I can get a stack trace somehow, I'll post it. However, this is not something that happens a lot. It just happens once in a while, so I could go quite a while without any problem. Thanks, Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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