Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 11:53:11 -0700 From: pius@ienet.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: terryl@ienet.com Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.7 box freezes occasionally Message-ID: <199809231853.LAA24335@iago.ienet.com>
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Hi, We have a box running 2.2-19980730-SNAP (so that's from about a week after 2.2.7 was released) that occasionally freezes up. I'm looking for some ideas as to why this might be happening. The symptoms are as follows: The box still responds to pings and traceroutes. The DNS server on the box still responds to queries. When I telnet to the box, I get the "Connected to ..." and "Escape character is '^]'." messages, but I don't get a login prompt. Same thing with the web server: I can telnet to port 80, and I'll get the "Connected to ..." and "Escape character ..." messages, but when I enter an HTTP request, the server won't respond. The console is frozen. The box has the following configuration: 350 MHz Pentium II 128 MB RAM DPT RAID controller that mirrors 2 9GB drives DPT SmartBus Integration Kit cheap S3 AGP video card The kernel was recompiled to support quotas, bpf, and 24-character usernames, and maxusers was set to 64. None of the servers on the machine are currently being used very much. So the load should be very light. I said earlier that this problem occurs occasionally. This is actually "only" the 2nd time it's happened since we installed the machine about 2 months ago (The first time it happened we were running a pre-2.2.7 SNAP). The machine is at a remote location. So someone needs to drive down there to check out the console and reboot it. We haven't been able to reboot it yet after today's lock-up, but the last time this happened fsck wasn't able to fix one of the drives, and we just re-installed the OS from scratch. The first time the machine froze during a "make world". Today it froze while I was running cvsup to update the ports tree. Any ideas? Are there any known problems with the DPT driver? (Let me know if there's some other information that I should try to get that would help to diagnose the problem.) Thanks very much for any help, Pius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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