Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 22:54:35 -0500 From: Tom Jackson <toj@gorilla.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reboot no work Message-ID: <19981010225435.A327@TOJ.org> In-Reply-To: <199810110307.VAA10428@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:07:56PM -0600 References: <19981010214101.A327@TOJ.org> <199810110307.VAA10428@panzer.plutotech.com>
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On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 09:07:56PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > Tom Jackson wrote... > > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:07:37PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > Tom Jackson wrote... > > > > Thanks for asking, very good question. Well it doesn't show up on my > > > > Thinkpad using the same bytes from the server and kernel compiled on the > > > > server. It gets more interesting, or is that perplexing? > > > > > > > > To make sure, I tried to boot the server with a single cpu kernel made at > > > > the same time. It went into single user because it can't fsck sd1. It does > > > > reboot from that condition. When in single user mode both fdisk and disk- > > > > label report that 2 disk without msdos partitions are not configured (?). > > > > They report as expected in smp mode. At this point, I'm not really sure if > > > > I have a damaged system or there is a bug somewhere. I'll keep looking. > > > > Hopefully someone might recognise something familar. > > > > > > Can you pop it into the debugger when it hangs? > > > > > > A stack trace might help diagnose the problem. > > > > > > Ken > > > -- > > > Kenneth Merry > > > ken@plutotech.com > > > > > Sorry, no. THe keyboard is froze and only the reset button will bring > > me back. Have tried turning off all local script startups but still > > have problem. If I don't wait a respectable time after issuing the reboot > > I get a improper umount into fsck land. Have also noticed a somewhat long > > time delay after local startups when booting. This reboot problem has only > > been around since about the 10/8 or 10/9. > > Can you try backing sys/cam/scsi/scsi_da.c to revision 1.7? It could be > that the cache sync command is causing one of your disks to hang. > > I'm not sure that's the problem, though, since you should be able to get > into the debugger when it hangs. > > Also, what kind of SCSI controller do you have? There was a bug in the > aha, bt and ahb drivers that caused the polling-for-completion stuff to not > work. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@plutotech.com > YES, that seems to have fixed it, at least for me. The controller is an onboard aic7880 wide ultra. There's also a 2940 narrow in the box. The two main drives are Fujitsi M2954[SQ]. Justin looked at the Q this summer. What's next? -- Tom -- IMail Server for Windows NT. Evaluation version. Copyright (c) 1995-98 Ipswitch, Inc. http://www.ipswitch.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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