From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 16:15:26 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 E0F7016A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 16:15:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.trident-uk.co.uk (mail.trident-uk.co.uk [194.221.74.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F6543D4C for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 16:15:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sparc@mail.trident-uk.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost.trident-uk.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mail.trident-uk.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D4D82917; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.trident-uk.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cobain.trident-uk.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 80974-09; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from m0ng.noc.trident-uk.co.uk (m0ng.noc.trident-uk.co.uk [192.168.122.20]) by mail.trident-uk.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF54828FB; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:19 +0100 (BST) Received: by m0ng.noc.trident-uk.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AB4996604; Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:15:21 +0100 From: Jamie Heckford To: Elliot Finley Message-ID: <20050517161521.GA7207@nipples.trident-uk.co.uk> References: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at trident-uk.co.uk cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamie@tridentmicrosystems.co.uk 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 16:15:27 -0000 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/