From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 11 15:49:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00134 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotjobs.com (fs3.ny.genx.net [206.64.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00128 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perlsta@hotjobs.com) Received: (qmail 21003 invoked by uid 1288); 11 Oct 1998 22:47:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Oct 1998 22:47:25 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:47:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred X-Sender: perlsta@fs3.ny.genx.net To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bitten 3 times already. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this is the third time freebsd has decided that wd0s1b wasn't "comfy" enough for a crashdump and ate a different partition while dumping. i even checked sysctl for the dumpdev and then checked against my /dev entry. this is on 2 seperate systems, i got yelled at for using DEVFS so i haven't been using it. anyhow i'm reinstalling yet again, i think i'm going to buy myself a tapebackup though. i was still having my hangs during deleting mail over NFS so i enabled DDB. the hangup happened (it had happened 3 times in about an hour)but i was able to get out of it and into DDB, i was kinda unsure of what to do at this point so i told the kernel to panic hoping for a useful backtrace i could send in from a crashdump. instead i'm doing a reinstall as the crash went to my /usr *sigh* i'm NOT enabling crash dumps again, but if anyone wants me to do _anything_ from DDB to give some sense of why the lockups happen i will. (can ping the box and ports that are open allow connections but then hang not allowing the accepting process to do anything, closed ports get connection refused) i'm using the xl0 driver over 100mbit, so i'm wondering if Bill would be interested in this. the really odd part is that the machine is just about rock solid, make world, large compiles over NFS (well not _that_ large), playing mp3s over NFS and all, but deleting mail in pine makes it just wedge the userland from what i can see. also, anyone have something i can do to get a dump of my partitions to examine why it's confusing the crashdump mechanism? thanks, Alfred (greatful it wasn't my homedir) Perlstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message