From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 17:24:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B9E16A4CE; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:24:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1C043D2D; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:24:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4615046B0A; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:24:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:22:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "O. Hartmann" In-Reply-To: <422352D3.8090600@uni-mainz.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:24:35 -0000 On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote: > >>Also, the system is really instable after I build the kernel for itself. > >>Under heavy load, the machine get stuck and freezes. > >> > >>I have no more informations due to remote control of the system. > > > > Do you have approximate before/after dates for when the instability began? > > In particular, was it with an update in the last 48 or 96 hours? > > Friday last week I did the last update. Then the machine was shut-down. > Today morning we started again, and since then (I built a kernel after > an 11 am cvsupdate and build kernel), the machine is freezing after I > tried to build world. Maybe this is due to kernel and userland are out > of sync? I try building a world now again, hope this clears up things > ... Ideally, world and kernel being out of sync shouldn't cause instability of this sort. Typically, it might result in tools such as ps, top, or maybe ipfw not working as desired, but not hangs. If you could confirm the last date you had a kernel that didn't have instability problems, we can try and track down what change it is between then and now that caused the problem to arise. Robert N M Watson