Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:21:07 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob88@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> To: mike@sentex.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with 3 kernel options Message-ID: <3C3468D3.3785E6F7@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu>
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Did you upgrade world when you upgraded the kernel? It sounds like they are out of sync. - Bob > > Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 11:25:06 -0500 > From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> > Subject: Re: Strange problem with 3 kernel options > > OK, a quick update. I tried building another machine with the same hardware > (minus the realtek) and it works just fine. Its not nearly as busy as the > one that failed. However, I did notice that the quota.users files on the > two partitions had strange time stamps of the last access. Is it possible > that the OS was unable to write to these corrupted files, and this is where > everything was holding up ? Anyways, I blew away those files and will try > a reboot in the early hours to see if that makes a difference-- i.e. with a > freshly created quota.user file. > > ---Mike > > At 08:45 AM 1/2/02 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >OK, I know I will get slapped for providing such little information (to > >start), but this morning I had a bit of fun with upgrading a Oct19 kernel > >to a Dec31st kernel. Getting rid of > > > >#options DUMMYNET > >#options IPDIVERT #divert sockets > ># Disk quotas are supported when this option is enabled. > >#options QUOTA #enable disk quotas > > > >allowed me to have the machine function in a normal state. The problem > >state was that I was unable to login to the system in multi user mode. > >There *seemed* to be a lot of processes blocking on something. I dont > >know what as I was unable to login. I thought at first it was that syslog > >problem with /dev/console, but I rebooted with syslogd off and I was able > >to get to a login prompt briefly. After that the system became unstable > >with too many files open I had to reboot. > > > >I am posting this in case anyone else has seen something similar. > > > >dmesg below. Kernel config is basically GENERIC with uneeded device > >drivers removed. MAXUSERS is set at 256. > > > >As the box is production, I cant fiddle with it right now, but I can come > >back in during off hours and do whatever would be useful to try and track > >this down. I do have another box with quotas enabled, but its nowhere > >nearly as busy, particularly as I tried to bring up quota support on my > >mail partition which is fairly busy. (mount with soft updates > >enabled). Anyone see anything similar ? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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