From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 15:43:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C8716A4CE; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:43:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from swip.net (mailfe04.swip.net [212.247.154.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F4343D45; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:43:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hselasky@c2i.net) X-T2-Posting-ID: Y1QAsIk9O44SO+J/q9KNyQ== Received: from mp-217-208-180.daxnet.no ([193.217.208.180] verified) by mailfe04.swip.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c5) with ESMTP id 369636873; Wed, 18 May 2005 17:43:31 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:44:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> <20050518150316.GA11987@nipples.trident-uk.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050518150316.GA11987@nipples.trident-uk.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505181744.19116.hselasky@c2i.net> cc: Elliot Finley cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hselasky@c2i.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:43:38 -0000 On Wednesday 18 May 2005 17:03, Jamie Heckford wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:40:01AM -0600, 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. > > > > I suspect a bug in FreeBSD because this mode of failure happens on 3 > > different machines, all configured similarly. > > > > ASUS P4P800 > > 2G RAM (though the other affected systems only have 1G) > > 80G Seagate Barracuda SATA drives (one system now on Promise TX4 S150 > > controller, others on onboard ICH5) > > > > On my lightly loaded systems, it happens rarely. On my mailserver > > (fairly heavy disk load), it happens quite frequently. > > > > How can I troubleshoot this? > > > Help? ;) There is a bug in "machine/bus.h" (was: "machine/bus_at386.h") that might cause random freezes, but I'm not sure if it is related: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80980 --HPS