Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 01:34:46 -0000 From: "Antonio Lupher" <antonioabroad@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: "Device not configured" after every command, crashing Message-ID: <Sea1-F11La8I71BcZal0000b8db@hotmail.com>
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I had them clean off the dust and reboot the server, however it soon went
down:
The following error was printed on the screen, it appears the server
utilized all the console buffer space making keyboard interaction
impossible.
vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1 (init)
Any ideas on what to do?
-antonio
>From: "fbsd_user" <fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com>
>Reply-To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com
>To: "Antonio Lupher"
><antonioabroad@hotmail.com>,<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>Subject: RE: "Device not configured" after every command, crashing
>Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:56:29 -0500
>
>Sounds like hardware problems caused by overheating.
>Open the PC cover and blow out all the dust.
>Leave cover off and see if problem reoccurs.
>
>The PC's power supply may be going bad, replace.
>
>FBSD 4.4 is real old you should install 4.9 to separate HD with out
>any ports to see if problem is bad HD.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Antonio
>Lupher
>Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:34 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: "Device not configured" after every command, crashing
>
>I'm a newbie running FreeBSD (I believe it's 4.4... am at the moment
>unable
>to check, as the computer is down) to host some of my websites. I
>sent a
>query to this mailing list before about receiving some errors when
>trying to
>access my website, after which, ssh would stop logging me into the
>server
>("Connection closed by [server ip]"), and all web pages would bring
>up a
>"Forbidden" error. After this, the server would go down
>completely... or at
>least I was unable to ping it, access it through http, or anything
>else that
>I tried...
>
>This has been happening regularly, about every 3-7 hours after the
>computer
>is rebooted. However, while the computer is running, I can
>distinguish
>nothing out of the ordinary.
>
>However, tonight, it "crashed" while i was logged in through ssh.
>Suddenly,
>almost every command that I issued or program I tried to run came
>back as
>"Device not configured."
>e.g.:
># reboot
>/sbin/reboot : Device not configured
>
>Some things work... (lynx, ping, ps -- all seem to work fine) but
>many other
>commands just return the "Device not configured" or "Segmentation
>fault"
>errors. Also very odd: ls, cd, pwd, etc. seem to work fine, but
>when I ls
>any directory, no files come up. It is completely blank....
>
>Anyway, I'm very scared and at my wit's end. The system will appear
>normal
>once it's rebooted, but the same thing will happen within a few
>hours... Any
>suggestions on what to look for? Are there certain log files that
>may
>contain information on this? I think the most recent thing I did to
>the
>server was several weeks ago, when I installed "wusage" to analyze
>web
>logs... i had since deleted it. Maybe something went wrong there?
>Hmmm....
>
>Thanks!
>-antonio
>
>
> >I have also noticed two processes running that I hadn't seen
>before:
> >
> > 6 con Is+ 0:00.11 sh /etc/rc autoboot
> >447 con I+ 0:00.00 sh /etc/rc autoboot
> >
>Errors when trying to access a php/mysql driven website....
> >>>Warning: open(/tmp/sess_4a23ba911863d07812e9cdf99656586f,
>O_RDWR)
> >>>failed: Device not configured (6) in
> >>
> >>>Warning: open(/tmp/sess_4a23ba911863d07812e9cdf99656586f,
>O_RDWR)
> >>>failed: Device not configured (6) in Unknown on line 0
> >>> Warning: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify
>that the
> >>>current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown
>on line
> >>>0
> >>>=======================================================
> >>>
> >>>I then try to login via ssh... but I get "Connection closed by
>[my ip]".
> >>
> >>It seems to me there is something wrong with your /tmp filesystem,
>causing
> >>both php and apache to be unable to write temp files, and also
>causes
> >>problems for several other daemons.
>
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