Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:21 +0100 From: Jamie Heckford <jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk> To: Elliot Finley <efinleywork@efinley.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? Message-ID: <20050517161521.GA7207@nipples.trident-uk.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> References: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com>
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On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:40:01AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote: > 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. > We are having similar problems to this on a box, won't go into great detail at the moment but will post results when we have finished testing. -- Jamie Heckford Network Manager Trident Microsystems Ltd. t: +44(0)1737-780790 f: +44(0)1737-771908 w: http://www.tridentmicrosystems.co.uk/
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