From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 10 19:21:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3B9D37B603; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:21:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: somewhat random mostly-lockups in 5.0 In-Reply-To: <17850.955392059@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The syptoms are that the machine locks up. Hard. But there's a catch: > > Erm, Brian, You *know* nobody can debug a problem like this without > hard information. It's like calling a mechanic on the phone and > saying "My car won't go. It just doesn't move at all! Tell me what's > wrong!" > [...] I'm not really expecting someone to be able to explain why it's happening. I'm wondering if anyone else notices the same problem. My friend down here who also has this problem is going to get DDB set up to work with the serial console, which means when it happens to him next, he'll have all the info necessary to figure this out. I was thinking that perhaps I was not the only one to notice this yet, and if someone else did they could find out more. I'm not looking for a psychic; I'm trying to find the problem by letting other people know that when it happens to them, they aren't the only ones, and shouldn't brush it off if possible... > - Jordan > > P.S. My -current box from April 6th has yet to do anything like this. It's occurred on UP machines only that I know of, and I know only of these two specific reports. There's more in common, such as use of softupdates, invariants, ATA, and other kernel options. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message