From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 5 17:30: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5268E37B404; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:30:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A22143ED4; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:30:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA93232; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:22:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB61LpFF062213; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@arch20m.dellroad.org) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB61Lpdk062212; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:21:51 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200212060121.gB61Lpdk062212@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200212060101.gB611u59092060@beastie.mckusick.com> To: Kirk McKusick Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 17:21:51 -0800 (PST) Cc: Archie Cobbs , Robert Watson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kirk McKusick wrote: > Does the background fsck process continue to run, or does the whole > system come to a halt? If the fsck process continues to run, what > happens when it eventually finishes? Is the system still dead, or > does it come back to life? If the system does not come back to life > can you get me the output of `ps axl'? If not, can you break into > the debugger and get a ps output? (You will need to have the DDB > option specified in your config file). I didn't notice whether it was running or not... of course the only way to tell would be to look at the HDD light. I didn't wait more than several minutes so not sure if it would ever finish. I'll try the other stuff tomorrow as I'm away from the office now. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message