From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 30 14:45:36 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA00834 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 14:45:36 -0800 Received: from bnr.ca (x400gate.bnr.ca [192.58.194.73]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA00828 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 14:45:33 -0800 X400-Received: by mta bnr.ca in /PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/; Relayed; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 17:44:11 -0500 X400-Received: by /PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/; Relayed; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 17:15:57 -0500 X400-Received: by /PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/; Relayed; Thu, 30 Mar 1995 17:15:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 17:15:00 -0500 X400-Originator: /dd.id=1740711/g=bo/i=b/s=xiao/@bnr.ca X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=BNR/ADMD=TELECOM.CANADA/C=CA/;bcars735.b.144:30.02.95.22.15.57] X400-Content-Type: P2-1984 (2) Content-Identifier: re:cnews hang... From: "bo (b.) xiao" Message-ID: <"18158 Thu Mar 30 17:16:02 1995"@bnr.ca> To: "bo (b.) xiao" Cc: "barry (b.) scott" , Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: re:cnews hangs and can not sync fs Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Fixed in 0322 snap. (Well, it did not appear for 1 week.) Realynews runs to completion all the time. Great work! Bo In message "cnews hangs and can not sync fs", Bo Xiao writes: > Hi, > > I have this problem for a while. Every so often, my machine > hangs over night. I have traced it down to relaynews. The process > runs for a while and then sits there. A couple locks(LOCK and > LOCKinput) are there. At the early stage, logins are accepted but > not later. > > When I can login, I cd to my news control directory. If I do a ls, > it never comes back. As root, I do reboot, I receive something like > > syncing filesystem .... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 give up > > and of course, the next boot complains the demounting. > > Does this have anything to do with my min configuration? I have 4M. > I noticed whenever relaynews stopped, the next raw news files was > 500K. Or it is because of my cnews package? I got it from utoronto > and make it out of box. Anyone has a better port? > > Any pointers appreciated. > > Bo >