From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 23:00:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB0916A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 23:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48A443D60 for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 23:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from list-freebsd@fsck.net) Received: from [38.113.132.13] (helo=akuma.fsck.net) by mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #4) id 1BPEhM-0005Vq-00; Sat, 15 May 2004 23:00:32 -0700 Received: by akuma.fsck.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 8BEFE4BFDF8; Sun, 16 May 2004 01:00:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 01:00:29 -0500 From: Eugene Lee To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20040516060029.GB3766@Dark-Age.local> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040515095410.GB1177@Dark-Age.local> <20040515115023.GA38472@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040515115023.GA38472@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-ELNK-Trace: 0f322b7eaaac7676d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b74c633072a965e1fd02db2a4d55fbbad350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: du -s causes reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 06:00:47 -0000 On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:50:24AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: : : On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:54:10AM -0500, Eugene Lee wrote: : : > FreeBSD 4.9p7. I have a new Dell PowerEdge 1750 that is giving me fits. : > I have a ~/src directory containing source tarballs that are unpacked. : > A "du -s ~/src" locks up my ssh session and causes it machine to reboot. : > No entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/console.info to indicate the : > problem. No core dumps either. All filesystems (except root) have : > softupdates enabled. Suggestions to troubleshoot this are appreciated. : > Rebuilding the kernel now with -g, hope it helps... : : Try dropping to single-user mode and applying the utility from your : domain name :-) It's possible you have filesystem corruption that is : causing your kernel crashes. Finally had a chance to get to the office and onto the PowerEdge console to do the obvious (i.e. /sbin/fsck, what Kris suggested). If there was any corruption in the filesystem, it seems to have fixed. Civilization is saved once again. Thanks Kris. :-)