From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 17:19:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 165BC16A401 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:19:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@recompiled.org) Received: from julesburg.uits.indiana.edu (julesburg.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B133343D46 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:19:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joe@recompiled.org) Received: from mail-relay.iu.edu (stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.78]) by julesburg.uits.indiana.edu (8.13.6/8.12.10/IUPO) with ESMTP id k3CHJmx8017077 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:19:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (c-68-57-225-15.hsd1.in.comcast.net [68.57.225.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail-relay.iu.edu (8.13.6/8.12.10/IUPO) with ESMTP id k3CHJnh4028063 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:19:50 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:19:49 -0400 From: Joe Eversole To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <89161872b287a077935bfbbb103e3862@localhost> X-Sender: joe@recompiled.org User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Hard locks after dirty reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:19:52 -0000 Greetings, I am running a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE system that does some simple internal network stuff (mail, web, dnsmasq also doing dhcp). I have recently started running into an issue where the box will hang on startup if the disks are not cleanly unmounted (ie: power failure). Used to, this wouldn't cause a problem... but the last 3 power outages have caused reboot failures. I will pull the box from it's headless location, plug in a keyboard and monitor, and boot it up. Bootloader works, the boot menu comes up (where it asks if you want single user mode, etc). It comes up and starts the process, cursor turns white, machine hangs. Never displays the boot information, never brings up network, etc. I boot off the FreeBSD CD, fsck the drives, and everything is happy. I have also noticed another peculiar behaviour. When the system boots up normally, it does not display the normal boot messages (the messages that are displayed by dmesg). It just appears to hang, then the login prompt appears. It occurs to me as I write this all out, that the system may not be hanging up as much as waiting for input when booting after a power failure, but I can't see it. What can I do to return the dmesg output during boot up? I know I am probably missing necessary info. Any help that can be given would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Joe