Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:27:02 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Rob Byrnes <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd crash on -STABLE box Message-ID: <20030613232701.GD7279@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030614091009.0256dd50@127.0.0.1> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030614091009.0256dd50@127.0.0.1>
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:19:38AM +1000, Rob Byrnes wrote: > I checked by Alpha this morning after it's been running fine for a while > and saw this on the terminal (hand transposed): > > Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin getty[2087] : getty : retreiving gettytab entry > 'default': Device not configured > Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin getty[2087] : getty : retreiving gettytab entry 'Pc': > Device not configured > Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin getty[2087] : getty : retreiving gettytab entry 'Pc': > Device not configured > Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin tc setattr /dev/ttyv1: Operation not supported > Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin init: getty repeating too quickly on /dev/ttyv1, > sleeping 30 secs Sounds like some gettys can't read their config. > Tried to halt the box nicely, this error popped up: > > [root@erwin] /: halt > spec_getpages : [#da/0] I/O read failure: (error 6) bp > 0xfffffe0004a53b70 vp 0xfffffe000b683ec0 > size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, valid: 0x0 > nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 0 > /sbin/halt: Input/output error Sound like a read error - without naming the aktual error. > So I had to hard reset the box. It came back OK after a fsck, nothing in > the logs at all > > root@erwin ~ % uname -a > FreeBSD erwin.number6 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 9 16:34:34 > EST 2003 root@erwin.number6:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ERWIN alpha > > Any clues as to what went awry? I would guess that your / drive temporarily failed, but it's hard to say why. You should check cabeling - especially whatch out for loose power connectors. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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