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Date:      Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:36:37 +0300
From:      Ekaterina Ivannikova <kate@gutatelecom.ru>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD 3.4 lockup
Message-ID:  <20001204163637.B1297@hub.all.yans.ru>

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Hi All,

I recently experienced a full lockup of a 3.4-RELEASE machine. The symptoms 
were as follows: the stack still answered pings, though no network services
were available, the console driver allowed switching virtual consoles,
but after typing "root" at "login:" prompt no "Password:" prompt appeared,
no disk activity was observable. The logs showed nothing, except that 
the last syslog entry and the last squid log entry were separated by
several seconds. It would seem that different procceses stopped or were 
killed at roughly the same time. No kernel messages were on the console.
The machine is a 3.4-RELEASE + tcp-iss patch running named, postfix, squid.
Ipfilter is installed. The time is kept by ntpdate which accidentally or 
not adjusted the time several seconds before the lockup. The box locked up 
solid at midnight and was no better nine hours later when it was reset.
Ctrl-Alt-Del did not reboot it.

Does anybody have any ideas as to what may have caused it ? I would very much
like to avoid the repetition of the problem as many people are heavily 
dependant on this box.

Regards,

Ekaterina Ivannikova

 


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