Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:28:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird hang problem with MSDOSFS in 2.2.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420202834.17940O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420180831.14256A-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Chris Dillon wrote: > I have a 2.2.5 system running on a Compaq Proliant(?) 486/66 server that > has been up 45 days now (and counting), and just experienced a problem I > haven't had before with it. I mounted a DOS formatted floppy to backup > the only important data on the machine (the bind databases) and things > went awry. I tarred up the stuff, threw it on a floppy, did an ls to see > what else was there, and ls hung before showing me anything. Switching to > a second term, i type mount, it hangs. I try to umount -f the mountpoint, > and it hangs, too. ps shows that it is in an uninterruptible disk wait, > so trying to kill the processes doesn't do much good. I've had this > happen before on my system at home, and I just rebooted to fix it. I > really don't want to reboot this box unless I have to. :-) Really, kill -9 didn't do anything? > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > root 13982 0.0 1.1 168 516 v0 D+ 3:29PM 0:00.07 colorls > -G -k -F /dos/a > root 13993 0.0 0.1 204 56 v1 D+ 3:30PM 0:00.02 mount > root 14020 0.0 0.2 280 68 v2 D+ 3:31PM 0:00.08 umount -f > /dos/a > > Is there ANY way I can remedy this without rebooting the machine, or even > just free up my terminals? ^C in the sessions does't help? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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