Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:35:36 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fork wedging (I think) Message-ID: <200703011735.37614.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070301064442.GG837@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <200703011149.02601.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070301064442.GG837@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--nextPart3784626.XMFZeWcX2j Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:14, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >The problem seems to occur when the acquisition process (called the > > Recorder) tries to fork off a new child. > > Your description and the ps output suggest a filesystem deadlock. When it happened last time I had no problem running commands (ps, ls, gdb, = etc=20 etc). I think the difference this time was running sysctl which does touch a lot = of=20 stuff (since I did sysctl -a) > A console would make it easy. My suggestion is to keep a shell open Yeah it would be, alas it's in the middle of nowhere in northern Canada :) > in /rescue and use './sysctl' (and other commands in rescue). I think > you will still be able to execute static executables in the current > directory vis a relative path even if the FS is deadlocked. (As long > as your shell isn't trying to write command history to a file). hmm.. I will see if I can maintain an open shell.. Going to be a PITA given= =20 the length of time between failures. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3784626.XMFZeWcX2j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF5ntB5ZPcIHs/zowRAulIAJ9Tg7UCC4MEcztIpcMkzIbn7UEHKwCfU/Gm IYJL0DHeyEtX8oxg5vJBfrs= =e5Iy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3784626.XMFZeWcX2j--
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