From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 7 12:33:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F5337B419 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 12:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (hutch-196.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.96]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CAE2A3 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:33:09 -0500 (CDT) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9B44838A9; Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:33:38 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:33:38 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: johann@broadpark.no Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd behavior in 4.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <20020407143338.C304@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: <1018010633.3cad9c0964843@mail.broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1018010633.3cad9c0964843@mail.broadpark.no>; from johann@broadpark.no on Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:43:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:43:53PM +0200, johann@broadpark.no wrote: > Greetings, > > I just installed FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE on a Packard Bell Legend (Pentium 120, > 16MB RAM and 17GB HDD) which I tend to use as my gateway. > > There are, however, a few issues I consider odd compared to how I'm used to > things working out: > > When doing a pkg_add -r, it seems to freeze for a few seconds before it starts > the process and displays the fetch URL. It also froze on the run of BitchX, though > I didn't bother to wait and see if it actually worked. > > The first package I tried adding was cvsupit. Besides from the first-minute freeze > the rest of the installation seemed to work well, apart from cvsupit's cvsup > process, where it ofcourse also froze. When I then tried cvsupit -g -L 2 > /etc/cvsupfile, I got some sort of library error (something with libXaw, I don't quite > remember). > > In the mean time, and quite frequently otherwise, I hear this metallic klinging > sound. I suspect it coming from the HDD, though it might as well be from any > other part of the box. The whole situation you are describing sounds like a disk subsystem that is in the process of letting it's smoke out. Check /var/log/messages, I wouldn't be surprised if it's full of ata TIMEOUT and BUS RESET and RETRY errors. Another thing you can possibly take a look at is the IDE controller itself. A lot of those older Packard Bells had hideously broken IDE controllers in them. If you had a PCI IDE controller to throw in it, that would make an excellent diagnostic tool. My thousand mile away guess is that your hard drive is failing. :-/ > > All of this is just driving me nuts. My grandmother died today. And I got nothing > better to do? > > --Johann > My condolences on your loss, Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message