From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 0:52:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.iwaynet.net (smtp.iwaynet.net [198.30.29.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9F815231 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@lojic.com) Received: from daytona (overkill.Progressive-Systems.Com [209.41.220.250]) by smtp.iwaynet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id DAA01859 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 03:51:52 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990323033343.014fcf10@mailbox.iwaynet.net> X-Sender: adkins@mailbox.iwaynet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 03:52:24 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Brian Adkins Subject: Graceful shutdown after hang? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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