Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:58:29 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Erik Funkenbusch <erikf@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk locks and weird things Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902140854220.3507-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <000701be5801$1d70dce0$0200a8c0@zeus>
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On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Erik Funkenbusch wrote: > Recently I've been trying to upgrade an early januarrry -current to > current -current. I've rebuilt the kernel several times over the last few > days (with new cvsup's) so i've eliminated any freak check-in mismatches. > > During a make world (usually about 10-20 minutes in on my P100) everything > just comes to a grinding halt. No disk activity, but the screen saver will > kick in (despite the shell being in the middle of said make world). > > If I switch to any alternate consoles and try to do anything, even an ls, it > accesses the disk for a brief second, then hangs as well. Other tasks that > don't need to access the disk keep running (such as natd and obviously the > screen saver). > > After waiting about a half hour, I hit the reset and get lots of UNREF > FILE's and SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD and BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS. They all > say slavaged or cleared. But you didn't look in /var/log/messages? For shame! > > It doesn't appear to be a problem with the actual disk, since rebooting > works fine until I try and build again. Even building the kernel works > fine. but doing a make world does not (I don't know if anything else causes > this). It never fails in the same place twice either, but it's always the > same effect. What you should have said is "It doesn't appear to be a problem with the actual disk, since rebooting with a different brand disk of the same capabilities doesn't work." or vice versa. > > Additionally, i've been getting No such user 'tty', service ignored messages > from ntalk and comsat. I'm sure these services were updated to make use of > some tty user or something, but i'd like to know what exactly I should do > here. Look in src/etc/master.passwd. vipw and add the lines for users you don't have. > > I'm also getting messages from de0 and lo0 that say: > > de0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen That's mostly harmless. It's a warning to driver maintainers that was just put in recently; the driver hasn't ever set ifq_maxlen, no doubt. > > Finally, if I try and run top i get: > > top: cannot read swaplist: kvm_read: Bad address > kvm_open: proc size mismatch (11392 total, 680 chunks) > top: Out of memory. > > I assume this is from a newer kernel with older support files (such as top) > but since I can't get world to build, I'm kinda stuck.. Yes it is, but the proper order is to make th world and then make the kernel. > > One more thing. I figured I might try a complete reinstallation so I tried > to download the 4.0-snap of 2-11 and was able to successfully create a > kern.flp but when I tried to create mfsroot.flp it seems to sit in a loop > forever just moving the disk head back and forth. I tried it with several > floppies (including the one I was able to successfully create kern.flp on) > with the same results. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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