Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:42:03 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT: 6.1/amd64 server hangs Message-ID: <4586545B.2070907@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <45864EAA.8070908@netfence.it> References: <45864EAA.8070908@netfence.it>
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-----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-----
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