From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 28 15:29:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F5D1065695 for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:29:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Received: from ns1.feral.com (ns1.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF2D8FC1C for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.135.104] (lportal.in1.lcl [172.16.1.9]) by ns1.feral.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7SExsBf037726 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:59:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@feral.com) Message-ID: <4C792465.9060201@feral.com> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:59:49 -0700 From: Matthew Jacob Organization: Feral Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org References: <4C78FF01.5020500@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <4C78FF01.5020500@langille.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (ns1.feral.com [192.168.221.1]); Sat, 28 Aug 2010 07:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: camcontrol rescan all - locks system X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:29:59 -0000 On 8/28/2010 5:20 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi, > > Running FreeBSD 8.1 stable on this particular box. I ran a camcontrol > devlist and didn't see my external tape library listed. I powered it > up and ran a 'camcontrol rescan all'. Now the system is froxen. Not > crashed, but nearly frozen. It responds to pings. New ssh sessions > are not connecting. Existing ssh sessions take one command and do > not respond. The console takes my login id, but does not prompt for > the password. > > I could reboot, but I'm about to go out for a bit and figured I'd ask > here and see what happens in my absence. And more details....?