From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 7 15: 5:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1148214C35 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 15:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20019; Fri, 7 May 1999 15:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905072200.PAA20019@implode.root.com> To: Cliff Skolnick Cc: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange reboot saga In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 May 1999 14:39:43 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:00:48 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >My deadlock problems started with a cvsup a little over a week ago, and many >others also noted that the problem started in april. Before that, my 3.1 >system was rock solid. It's either a VM problem or a CAM problem by how the >system responds to pings for a bit, but no disk acces can be done. No >console messages, the machine is a server and not running X. > >Perhaps something bad got checked in in April, this weekend I'm going to >spend some time looking a what actually changed that month. > >I'm also a little alarmed about how many people are rationalizing this and >attacking the posters of lockup problems. Many posters have stated that >there sysem was stable with 2.2 or an earlier version of 3.1, please don't >discount that. This is -stable, not -advocacy. > >QUESTION FOR THE GURUS > >I'd love to get a system snapshot or something while the kernel is still >running. Is there a way to do this once the disk system is out to lunch? >Hints? Put DDB into your kernel. When the system hangs, enter the debugger with ctrl-printsceen. You can then use the 'ps', 'trace', and 'panic' commands. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message