From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 12 15:42:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F6116A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:42:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (u46n208.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 057B843D45 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:42:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A388B3CFC0; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:42:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FDCF3CDE1; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:42:06 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:42:06 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Tod McQuillin In-Reply-To: <20040813002243.O34675@plexi.pun-pun.prv> Message-ID: <20040812124123.P83100@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20040812104827.Y62519@ganymede.hub.org> <20040813002243.O34675@plexi.pun-pun.prv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just locked up a file system ... but not the system ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:42:07 -0000 On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Tod McQuillin wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> I have a tech going down to reboot the machine, since I can't leave it down >> long ... is there something else that I should have looked at on this? >> Since there is no KVM/keyboard attached to this, and it wasn't booted with >> one in it, I don't have any way of getting to the DDB and trying to get a >> core :( > > Can't you use "reboot -d" for this? or maybe "reboot -qd". > > Never tried it, but it seems like it makes sense in this situation. Sounds like it would, but with the one file system being effectively wedged, I'm not sure if it would work ... I'll try it next time though, since the other alternative is a cold boot, which gives zip :( Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664