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Date:      Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:48:35 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: more amd hangs: problem really in syslog? 
Message-ID:  <199907132248.PAA01661@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 15:49:04 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907131547280.18339-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> 

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> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > 	After pounding on this some more with today's -current (prior to
> > > the  MNT_ASYNC flag change) I got a lot more lockups that looked like
> > > this:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Doug wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 	Ok, got another hang in "siobi" state (this time after it
> > > > successfully completed the script). Here is the trace:
> > 
> > 'siobi' is in sioopen() in the sio driver.  The callout device is 
> > already open, but the caller is trying to open it in blocking mode.  
> > It'd be useful to know what is hanging in 'siobi' here, since trying to 
> > re-open the console is a bit of a suspicious action.
> 
> 	I'm using a serial console, but I directed local7 to a file in
> syslog.conf. But from what you're saying it sounds like the serial console
> is a suspect?

'siobi' is someone trying to open the serial console, for whatever
reason. Without knowing who it was that was stuck there, it's hard to 
guess what is going on.

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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