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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@zone.syracuse.net>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: system hangs with soft updates
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.04.9809212130260.18872-100000@zone.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980921143212.11176C-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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Wow, I sure hope that noone read your message and ecided to follow it
word-by-word. Ctrl-alt-del is the reboot key sequence (albeit
disableable), ctrl-alt-ESC is the DDB break-in sequence.

Cheers,
Brian

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 
> > Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > > _wdstart(ctrlr=1) at _wdstart+0x4af [../../i386/isa/wd.c:332]
> > > 
> > > This is where you were when the interrupt occurred.  Unfortunately the 
> > > line number above is wrong; wdstart() begins around line 900.
> > 
> > I've repeated it, and it definitely says 332, so don't blame me for that
> > one <g>
> > 
> > > Did you see any "dummy wdunwedge" messages before you dropped into DDB, 
> > > or any other messages at all?  
> > 
> > No, I'm pretty sure I didn't see anything like that.
> > 
> > > If you can reproduce the situation again, it would be useful if you 
> > > could drop into DDB, copy the trace output, then use 'c' to continue 
> > > and repeat the process a couple of times.  This would clarify whether 
> > > you're stuck in the IDE driver, or whether you just happened to catch
> > > it there on a chance.
> > 
> > When I press c, nothing happens. I have to ctrl-alt-esc to get back into
> > the debugger.
> 
> if you re-enter the debugger many times doe sthe stack trace ever change
> at all?
> <CTL><ALT><DEL>
> [get stack]
> Cont
> <CTL><ALT><DEL>
> [get stack]
> Cont
> <CTL><ALT><DEL>
> [get stack]
> Cont
> <CTL><ALT><DEL>
> [get stack]
> Cont
> 
> > 
> > A few other lines which may be relevant, everything else was pretty much
> > the same as last time:
> > 
> > _worklist_insert(head=f1a049a0,item=f0fa0280) at _worklist_insert+0x10 [../../ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c:402]
> > _softdep_disk_write_complete(bp=f1a049a0) at _softdep_disk_write_complete+0x29d [../../ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c:3012]
> > _biodone(bp=f1a049a0) at _biodone+0xab [../../kern/vfs_bio.c:1915]
> 
> Very interesting...
> I have to upgrade my test systems as they've been 
> 'suspended' during all the ELF/CAM transition.
> 
> > 
> > The disk light did actually go off after a while, but it came on again
> > as soon as I typed (c)ontinue, so it's stuck somewhere.
> Well you can single-step..
> try 's' instead of 'c'
> 
> julian
> 
> > 
> > -- 
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