From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 13:45: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [205.134.163.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6202E37B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 13:44:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Received: from blood (adsl-138-88-46-113.bellatlantic.net [138.88.46.113]) by aries.ai.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA14111 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 16:44:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from deepak@ai.net) Reply-To: From: "Deepak Jain" To: Subject: Strange Issue Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:48:49 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This happened on one machine, and this weekend on another. These are 4.1 and 4.2 machines. We have a standard kernel for them that we install on identical hardware (typically 100-300 server batches). Everything is identical by design. Spontaneously, one of these servers decides after the boot prompt and our default kernel it can't mount /dev/da0s1a. You boot to the GENERIC kernel, no problem. You install the previously working again (clean) doesn't work. You build a new kernel with a few mods on the problematic box, and it works. Our custom kernel is built off the GENERIC kernel. More things are commented out than added in. I'd love to think some module that is crucial is getting corrupted, but we don't add anything disk related. I know this is more vague than ideal, and since we haven't been able to spontaneously reproduce it, my ability to provide information is limited. Does this sound familiar to anyone?? Thanks in advance, Deepak Jain AiNET To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message