Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 14:46:32 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Elliot Finley <efinleywork@efinley.com> Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? Message-ID: <42889628.20103@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> References: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com>
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Elliot Finley wrote: > This has been happening since 5.3-R, I've been tuning different parameters > to no avail. I've taken the disks off of the onboard ICH5 controller and > put them a promise TX4 S150 controller, but still the same thing happens. > > The system freezes, but isn't totally dead. It'll still respond to pings, > the screensaver still functions, but it won't respond to a CAD at the > console. But if I press 'Enter' at the console, it'll give me a 'login:' > prompt, but after entering the username, it never comes back with the > 'password:' prompt. > > After manually resetting the system it boots and says 'Automatic file system > check failed; help!' and drops into single user mode. Running fsck manually > corrects errors on all volumes. Then it'll boot from that point. > > This seems to be triggered by daily periodic as it happens at 3:02-3:03AM > each time. But it doesn't happen *every* morning. Hmm, sounds as a deadlock somewhere. On the ATA part, try the ATA mkIII patches on http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ATA and see if that changes anything. -- -Søren
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