Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 03:45:11 +0800 From: Yong-Jhen Hong <yongjhen@alqualonde.org> To: Godwin Stewart <gstewart@bonivet.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it mean? Message-ID: <41966447.1010903@alqualonde.org> In-Reply-To: <20041110001055.5548c227.gstewart@bonivet.net> References: <BAY2-DAV13Gz1iD0CWl00009b23@hotmail.com> <20041110001055.5548c227.gstewart@bonivet.net>
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Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:01:41 -0800, "Zoltan Frombach" <tssajo@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I just upgraded to 5.3-RELEASE a few days ago. This morning this line got
>>into my system log file:
>>Nov 9 06:14:03 www kernel: ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt was seen
>>but timeout fired LBA=2491143
>>
>>I've never seen this message before. Can someone please explain what it
>>means? With Thanks,
>
> Looks like you may have a hard disk about to die. I'd start doing backups if
> I were you and then consider replacing the HD.
>
I can easily reproduce this warning message with 'pkg-config xxx',
xxx is anything can not be found in 'pkg-config --list-all'.
My system has nearly no response (console, network, etc.) after that.
From that I find 'gnome-config' is symbolic-linked to 'pkg-config'
on my system(!). When 'pkg-config' can't find anything about 'xxx',
it calls 'gnome-config', and 'gnome-config'('pkg-config') calls
'gnome-config'('pkg-config') calls...:)
<screenshot>
65751 v1 S+ 0:00.01 pkg-config xxx
65752 v1 S+ 0:00.01 sh -c gnome-config --libs xxx > /dev/null 2>&1
65753 v1 S+ 0:00.01 gnome-config --libs xxx (pkg-config)
65754 v1 S+ 0:00.01 sh -c gnome-config --libs xxx > /dev/null 2>&1
65755 v1 S+ 0:00.01 gnome-config --libs xxx (pkg-config)
65756 v1 S+ 0:00.01 sh -c gnome-config --libs xxx > /dev/null 2>&1
65757 v1 S+ 0:00.01 gnome-config --libs xxx (pkg-config)
65758 v1 S+ 0:00.01 sh -c gnome-config --libs xxx > /dev/null 2>&1
65759 v1 S+ 0:00.01 gnome-config --libs xxx (pkg-config)
...
</screenshot>
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