From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 21 9:16: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from amx.mathieu.org (modemcable161.243-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca [24.201.243.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 343F237B72A for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:15:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mathieu@amx.dyn.dhs.org) Received: from amx.dyn.dhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amx.mathieu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8954A40BC for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:25:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AB8E402.51160B75@amx.dyn.dhs.org> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:25:22 -0500 From: Mathieu Reply-To: mathieu@amx.dyn.dhs.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: fr-CA, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 4.3-BETA world crashing 4.2-RELEASE kernel ? Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------DF068CFB638B4E3F4339B60F" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------DF068CFB638B4E3F4339B60F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello ! First, sorry I don't speak English very well :p Usually speak French ! I have a problem with a FreeBSD server that is far far away, so I don't have access to the console. As far as I know, it worked fine with 4.2-RELEASE for... hmm, 2 days, then I upgraded it to the latest STABLE (4.3-BETA), and the server worked fine for 24 hours or so, but then, the server locked up. It was still answering to pings, but all daemons weren't responding anymore. I could still telnet to it, but I was just not getting the login prompt, same thing for Apache, FTP, SSH... I can connect, but no answers. I asked to reboot it many time. And each time, I can telnet to it, and get the login prompt (!), but that's strange... seems it can't fork a shell... I don't even get the motd, just the "Last login from..." thing. But sometime SendMail is working, and I could send mail to the account previously created on the machine. But all the servers always die in something like, 5 minutes.. Then it still answers to pings, but just no answers from Telnet/Apache/FTP, etc... :( However, the technicians there were able to do a make world in single user mode, worked fine. But in multi user mode, the server seems to consume all his ressources, and then processes start to crash randomly, and there is also files corrumption, and always some kind of error messages like "Cannot kill process", things like that, they don't know what's causing this. Of course, technicians there want to bill me 100$ to reinstall 4.2-RELEASE.. hehehe :p But luckily, I've backuped a 4.2-RELEASE kernel in the root. So, now, the computer does exactly the same thing with the 4.2 kernel, exactly. But those technicians still says that the problem came from the 4.3-BETA environnement (hmm, the "world" !), not the kernel, nor the hardware, so they have to "repair" what I've broken ($). :( So, is it safe to say that the world is indenpendent of the hardware so this problem should reproduce on all 4.3 system around the planet (Hehehe, personnaly, it works fine on my computer ! :p), or could this really be a bug NOT in the FreeBSD kernel that causes the machine to die in 5 minutes or so in multi user mode (even will it is idle !) ? Thanks ! And sorry for this long long long e-mail :p I've attached a DMESG from 4.2-RELEASE, sorry... I don't have a more recent one. -- Mathieu --------------DF068CFB638B4E3F4339B60F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="dmesg.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="dmesg.txt" Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000 jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (735.00-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x686 Stepping = 6 Features=0x383fbff real memory = 66060288 (64512K bytes) config> di sn0 config> di lnc0 config> di ie0 config> di fe0 config> di ed0 config> di cs0 config> q avail memory = 60080128 (58672K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0436000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc043609c. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pci0: at 1.0 irq 0 pcib1: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 fxp0: port 0xdf00-0xdf3f mem 0xff700000-0xff7fffff,0xff8df000-0xff8dffff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci1 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:e0:81:01:7e:be isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2413) at 31.3 irq 11 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x100> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A, console sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 ad0: 19541MB [39704/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a fxp0: promiscuous mode enabled fxp0: promiscuous mode disabled --------------DF068CFB638B4E3F4339B60F-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message