Date: 17 Apr 1997 00:47:40 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with /dev/spkr driver can cause crashes Message-ID: <p1i67xm60vn.fsf@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:31:28 -0600 References: <3.0.32.19970414003125.0068c68c@lariat.org>
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I had the same problem ;-( Workaround: don't use /dev/spkr Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes: > I've written a Perl script that uses the /dev/spkr driver to sound an alarm > when certain events occur. Recently, I came home to find my FreeBSD 2.1.0-R > system playing random tones continuously. I found that a process which had > opened the device and played a few tones had wedged. When I killed the > process, > the system squealed like a stuck pig, made a few other strange noises, and > abruptly rebooted without syncing the disk. There were several bad file > descriptors, > including some in /dev that took a bit of time to clean up. I was lucky that > no more data than this was lost. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
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