From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 3 6:21:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wasp.eng.ufl.edu (wasp.eng.ufl.edu [128.227.116.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31B4037B419 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 06:21:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu (scanner.engnet.ufl.edu [128.227.152.221]) by wasp.eng.ufl.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04769; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 09:21:07 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C3468D3.3785E6F7@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 09:21:07 -0500 From: Bob Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en, eo MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike@sentex.net Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with 3 kernel options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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