From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 14 16:23:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00910 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:23:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00891; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA11209; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd011204; Tue Jul 14 23:15:50 1998 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Adam McDougall cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TESTERS NEEDED: Softupdates looks Very good. In-Reply-To: <35AB29C1.FFFF01E0@ameritech.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got a fix for some hanging sent to me today.. I will check it out and get back to you.. julian On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Adam McDougall wrote: > I have a partition solely for the source and ports tree with softupdates > enabled (and also /usr since things were going smoothly lately) but while > trying to build the XFree86 port on a kernel and system from approx. midnight, > it has been hanging the system.I noticed because ther compile stopped doing > anything, it just sat there, just like my telnets into the machine. I could > switch consoles, and I switched to a console that had been running top, and it > was running happily, but I noticed several Zombies as shown by the second line > of top. I use top -I so I didnt see what they were, but i assume they were the > proccesses that tried to run past the 'hang'. ctrl-alt-del did not work, I had > to cold boot the machine. This has happened twice tonight. I have a dpt 2144UW > HBA, p233mmx, and was using links to the latest ffs_softdep.c and softdep.h. > Is there something useful I could get out of DDB when this happens? I could > probably reproduce it. Anything else I could try to help analyze whats wrong? > Any more machine-specific info needed? Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message