From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 23 15:56:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDE437B409 for ; Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:56:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9NMuJX05921; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 00:56:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 00:56:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200110232256.f9NMuJX05921@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, petercv@zeelandnet.nl Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, petercv@zeelandnet.nl Subject: Re: Input/output Error In-Reply-To: <3BD6F9C3@twigger.nl> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Peter Verhage wrote: > A month ago or something I upgraded my system to FreeBSD 4.4 STABLE. Never had > any problems until a few days ago. I wanted to use the 'ps' program and some > other userland programs and when I started those programs I got the following > error: Input/output error. Some programs did work like 'top' but most programs > gave the same error. So I thought maybe when I reboot the system everything is > OK. But ofcourse I couldn't use 'reboot', 'fastboot' and couldn't even use > 'halt' :(. So a hard reboot it was. > > When the system came back up again everything seemed fine again. Everything > works fine I can use all userland programs etc. etc. But when I let the system > alone for a while (I don't know exactly how long, but less then 4 hours) I get > the same error again and again and again :(. This sounds very much like a dying HD drive. Do you see any error messages from the kernel (on the console, or in the output from the dmesg command), mentioning something like "medium error"? If so, then it's the disk. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message