From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 14:58:56 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 3C66116A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 14:58:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yeppers.tdkt.org (skyline.tdkt.org [209.98.211.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5042D43D72 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 14:58:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bcasavan@tdkt.org) Received: from chenjesu.americas.sgi.com (cfcafwp.sgi.com [192.48.179.6]) (authenticated bits=0)j4HEwd90024808 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 09:58:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:58:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Brent Casavant X-X-Sender: bcasavan@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050517062002.465BE16A4E3@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20050517095122.W2946@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> References: <20050517062002.465BE16A4E3@hub.freebsd.org> Organization: "Angeltread Software Organization" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Brent Casavant List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:58:56 -0000 On Tue, 17 May 2005 freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:40:01 -0600 > From: "Elliot Finley" > Subject: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? > To: > Cc: sos@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > This has been happening since 5.3-R, I've been tuning different parameters > to no avail. I've taken the disks off of the onboard ICH5 controller and > put them a promise TX4 S150 controller, but still the same thing happens. > > The system freezes, but isn't totally dead. It'll still respond to pings, > the screensaver still functions, but it won't respond to a CAD at the > console. But if I press 'Enter' at the console, it'll give me a 'login:' > prompt, but after entering the username, it never comes back with the > 'password:' prompt. > > After manually resetting the system it boots and says 'Automatic file system > check failed; help!' and drops into single user mode. Running fsck manually > corrects errors on all volumes. Then it'll boot from that point. > > This seems to be triggered by daily periodic as it happens at 3:02-3:03AM > each time. But it doesn't happen *every* morning. > > I suspect a bug in FreeBSD because this mode of failure happens on 3 > different machines, all configured similarly. You can add a fourth. Ever since 5.1 (my first 5.x install) I have experienced the same problem, again with an Intel ICH5 ATA controller. The symptoms are exactly the same -- the hang is normally triggered during the periodic runs just after 3AM. The hang does occur at other times as well, but with nowhere near the same consistency. The only solution I found at that time was reverting to 4.10, though that is obviously suboptimal. I could be persuaded to reinstall 5.x on the machine if I'd be sure to get someone to look into this. Thanks, Brent Casavant -- Brent Casavant http://www.angeltread.org/ KD5EMB -.- -.. ..... . -- -... 44 54'24"N 93 03'21"W 907FASL EN34lv