From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 4 18:22:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA06302 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA06296 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 18:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA19590; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 11:21:20 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA00852; Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:51:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970905105114.43394@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 10:51:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Johan Larsson Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Current unusable :( References: <19970904181319.33380@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Johan Larsson on Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 03:57:03PM +0200 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by freebie.lemis.com id KAA00852 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA06297 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 03:57:03PM +0200, Johan Larsson wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 09:15:28AM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: >>> >>> I just found out that -current is hosed, try run the linuxulator and >>> then start up a moderately big app (eg StarWriter), and the system >>> just hangs no panic no nothing just a hang.... >>> >>> Seems this has been for awhile, a 970827 kernel fails too... >> >> To follow up on my last message: after several minutes, StarWriter >> came up as usual. Here's the critical part of the ktrace. If I had >> time, I'd fix ktrace so that it would understand Linux system calls... >> BTW, I was monitoring the connection to the outside world during this >> time, since I suspected that it might be doing a DNS query, but that >> doesn't seem to be the case. > > I still believe this actually can be the case. Yes, you could well be right. Much later, I finally got a response on allegro.lemis.com (the BSD/OS box). swriter3 claimed it couldn't resolve allegro's IP address. Both freebie and allegro are authoritative for lemis.com, so it's difficult to think that this is a real DNS problem. Greg