From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 6 10:51:54 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 82B2137B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sweb.uky.edu (sweb.uky.edu [128.163.2.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACBA43ED1 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@uky.edu) Received: from uky.edu ([198.93.75.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by sweb.uky.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gB6IfkEC087999 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT); Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:41:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david@uky.edu) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:52:11 -0500 Subject: Re: backgroud fsck is still locking up system (fwd) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Cc: Kirk McKusick , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org To: Archie Cobbs From: David Rhodus In-Reply-To: <200212061839.gB6Id3Bn064745@arch20m.dellroad.org> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) 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 On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Archie Cobbs wrote: > 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). > > OK, here is some more info.. > > I easily reproduced the problem again. So far it's 100% reproducible. > This time to reproduce it simply booted in single user mode, typed > "mount -a -t nonfs" and then pulled the plug. > > After the reboot, the HDD light soon stops blinking altogether. I > waited for several minutes (which should have been long enough) and > it never came back to life, which is not surprising considering > there's no disk activity. > > Breaking into the debugger still works. However, pressing the soft > power button no longer causes a graceful shutdown as it normally does. > > To copy the 'ps' debugger output, I'd have to manually copy it all, > so here are just a few highlights: > > Proc State > ---- ----- > fsck_ufs 0004000 norm[SLPQ nbufbs c036e5b0][SLP] > fsck 0004002 norm[SLPQ wait c124dce8][SLP] > syncer 0000204 norm[SLPQ nbufbs c036e5b0][SLP] > vnlru 0000204 norm[SLPQ vlruwt c12c0ce8][SLP] > bufdaemon 0000204 norm[SLPQ qsleep c036e5a4][SLP] > swapper 0000200 norm[SLPQ sched c0315a20][SLP] > > Softupdates is enabled on /usr and /var but not /. > > This machine also acts as an NFS client for /home/archie. > Why does softupdates not get enabled on / , by default on the install? -DR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message