From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 8 15:09:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21383 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21370 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 15:09:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (lxpx98.lx.ehu.es [158.227.99.98]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA22450; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 00:09:33 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <36BF6EAC.809E2A93@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 00:09:32 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboot - reproducible References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > I did a make world lastnight off of 3.0 stable source code freshly cvsup. > I was trying to create some floppy disks using: > > dd if=boot.flp of=/dev/fd0 > > I had forgotten to remove the write-protection from the diskette. The > drive suddenly started going wild (floppy drive). I tried to hit Cntl-C > after a second X locked up and the computer rebooted. I tried the > samething on my gateway machine and it also rebooted (STABLE-02061999). > Certainly hitting Cntl-C should not reboot the computer. The disks > were not synced in either case. I am wondering if this has anything to do > with the spontaneous reboots I have been getting under load. > Perhaps this problem is related to another one I found recently: when trying to mount (R/W) a write protected unit (nobody is perfect :-) ), such as a diskette or a MO disk, the kernel complaints, but the mount succeeds anyway. After that, unmounting the device is not possible. A diskette can be manually ejected for removing the write protection, but a MO disk (I suppose that the same would happen using a ZIP) cannot be ejected :-(. My next action is remount R/O (mount -u -r) the device: more kernel messages. And after that, an umount ends with a panic ("dirty buffers") _always_. -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@es.FreeBSD.ORG Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message