From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 18 20:43:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA21823 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 20:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA21812 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 20:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id UAA13533; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 20:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199607190343.UAA13533@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Thor Clark cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help -system hangs - the ongoing saga In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jul 1996 20:26:20 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@root.com Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 20:43:28 -0700 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >(original problem detailed at end) >Some new info, >compiled a new kernel with DDB, and escaped into it after system hung - >many of the processes (including init) were waiting with > >lock_write f020e004 > >I continued a few times, and this didn't change >I don't know what this means, or what else I should be looking for... >I'm wondering if this is hardware failure at this point, but don't know >what to check. >Many thanks for any help (even a 'give it up' ;) This is likely fixed in 2.1.5. There was a bug that could be easily triggered with doing a pair of ps(8)'s at the wrong time and resulted in the above hang. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project