Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 03:52:24 -0500 From: Brian Adkins <brian@lojic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Graceful shutdown after hang? Message-ID: <4.1.19990323033343.014fcf10@mailbox.iwaynet.net>
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I seem to have hung up my FreeBSD 2.2.7 box pretty well, and I thought I'd see if there was something other than cycling the power that I could do. I was running the vncviewer on an NT machine and I attempted to build a port (unzip) before changing to root so it failed. Then I su'd to root and built it again, but it hung up during the make, so I removed some temporary files it created and tried to build it again and it hung the xterm. I went to another xterm to try and determine the problem and it wouldn't respond, so I went to the console and none of the 3 virtual consoles would respond. vncviewer is still happily running and displaying xload and I can ping the FreeBSD box from the NT machine, but I can't get into any of the xterms or virtual consoles. I also can't telnet to it. The hard disk light is on solid. Whoa! That was weird. I thought it might have had something to do with the CD ROM since it was being accessed during the build, so I pressed the eject button on the CD ROM drive. Normally, this is just ignored when the drive is mounted ie. it won't open. But as soon as I pressed the button, the hard disk light went off and I saw a message something like: wcd0 tray open syncing disks panic automatic reboot in 15 seconds vrele negative ref cnt I didn't have much time to write it down, so it wasn't exactly like that. Well at least the disks got sync'd so I guess it was better than cycling the power. FreeBSD 2.2.7 installed of Walnut Creek CD YKM Motherboard Pentium MMX 200 32 MB RAM Maxtor 4 GB IDE drive To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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