Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:36:41 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fork wedging (I think) Message-ID: <200703051136.42494.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200703011735.37614.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200703011149.02601.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070301064442.GG837@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200703011735.37614.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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--nextPart13641778.VWCKfe0CRQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > in /rescue and use './sysctl' (and other commands in rescue). I think > > you will still be able to execute static executables in the current > > directory vis a relative path even if the FS is deadlocked. (As long > > as your shell isn't trying to write command history to a file). > > hmm.. I will see if I can maintain an open shell.. Going to be a PITA giv= en > the length of time between failures. I just logged in OK as it's done it again. Unfortunately it has a version of ATARAID which doesn't support crash dumps. Argh. I was incrementally dumping sysctl trees and when I got to vm it hung.. eureka:~>sysctl vm load: 0.07 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k load: 0.07 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k load: 0.07 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k load: 0.05 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k I tried to reboot in another window but.. eureka:~>reboot load: 0.06 cmd: csh 71159 [allproc] 0.03u 0.00s 0% 4652k I am pondering an update to at least the ATA sub system so I can generate a= =20 crash dump though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart13641778.VWCKfe0CRQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF620i5ZPcIHs/zowRAnrzAJ48SMH6CqNx4z8hzkWWDO+b+2hBZgCfTa9I E1OxVogHGmKKrgI6oNNuD1Q= =7dYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13641778.VWCKfe0CRQ--
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