From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Dec 18 23:53:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CC6037B401 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B61C43EE8 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2002 23:53:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBJ87kuP010974; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:07:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBJ87kIn010973; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:07:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:07:45 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hangs under load Message-ID: <20021219030745.A4242@locore.ca> References: <20021210184226.W66997-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> <20021210141635.A84047@locore.ca> <20021216190450.N33658-100000@ury.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20021216190450.N33658-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>; from gavin@ury.york.ac.uk on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:11:14PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 07:11:14PM +0000, Gavin Atkinson said words to the effect of; > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > Apparently, On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:53:46PM +0000, > > Gavin Atkinson said words to the effect of; > > > > > I am running a kernel from Nov 11th on my Ultra 5. I can't compile a new > > > kernel because my system hangs during the compile. How can I begin to > > > debug this? Or should I just try my hardest to get to the top of the tree > > > before investigating? > > > > > > I don't think it's hardware issues. The box still responds to pings and > > > arp who-has requests. But I get nothing on the serial port, and sending a > > > break does nothing either. > > > > Try to get to the top of the tree. If you can't build a new kernel you > > could download the RC1 or DP2 dics2.iso and try booting the GENERIC kernel > > that's on that. It should work ok with your older binaries. > > OK, well I've managed to get world/kerenl updated and still have the > hangs. I can do nothing with the serial console, and nothing gets > printed there or in the event log when it happens. It is reproducable, > running buildworld with /usr/src NFS mounted from a CURRENT i386 > machine is sufficient (i'm about to try with local /usr/src to see if > that makes any difference). What else can I try? Does this still happen if you cut NFS out of the picture completely? Someone reported problems building world over nfs on an i386 box, which may be related. The symptoms sound the same, complete hard lock. My ultra 10 does a make release almost everyday and I haven't had any problems with it locking up, but its all local disk. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message