From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 08:42:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBA916A412 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:42:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 906E243CAC for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:42:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.141]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kBI8g6K7023326 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:42:06 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.101] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id kBI8g5UI001329 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:42:05 -0800 Message-ID: <4586545B.2070907@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:42:03 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061217) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <45864EAA.8070908@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <45864EAA.8070908@netfence.it> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.2.2.285561, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2006.12.18.2933 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __LINES_OF_YELLING 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: URGENT: 6.1/amd64 server hangs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:42:14 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > A server I manage is locking too frequently. > The behaviour is very strange: almost nothing works, no daemon is > running, keyboard is ignored, but still the machine will answer pings. > > The real problem is that I'm not able to diagnose this, since no message > is displayed on the console or recorded in the logs and no crash is > produced. I compiled DDB in, I can press Ctrl-Alt-Esc and drop into it, > but then again the keyboard won't work, so it's useless. > > Although this box features a dual core CPU, I'm running with SMP > disabled, so to leave this out of the way. > Apart from that, the most unusual things this box has are an amr > controller (featuring RAID5) and GELI. Are there any known issues with > these? > > How is 6.2 stability right now? Dumping and upgrading is the only thing > I can think about, though I'm not sure whether this would be an > improvement... > > Any other hint? Any info I should look for and provide? > > bye & Thanks > av. Andrea, Are you running X in some shape or form on the server, and what's the last message you receive on the console? - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFhlRaEnKyINQw/HARAr7hAKCgT+pjqaHOYHZwm0wxKwfArUsQNACePHff miQWDGxyti8S92BMjTHQoxM= =j82p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----