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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:24:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: -current unusable after a crash
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021125102358.33619A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200211250959.39594.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> The only way to get my -current system back to normal after a crash is
> to boot into single user and do an explicit ``fsck -p''. 
> 
> Otherwise the system will, seemingly, boot fine, but none of the ttyvs
> will accept any input, although tty-switching works fine. Remote
> connections (ssh, telnet) don't bring up the login prompt. 
> 
> I thought, this might be due to the priority of the background fsck and
> have once left it alone for several hours -- with no effect. The usual
> fsck takes a few minutes. 
> 
> There are three drives in the system -- a 4G SCSI (on ahc0) with /,
> /usr, /opt, and /home on it, and two 30Gb IDEs coupled into one big ccd. 

Any chance we can get you to break into ddb on the console, do a ps, and
see what the processes are waiting for?  Also, if they're waiting on
something like "ufs" or "inode", generated ddb traces of the processes
would be interesting.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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