From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 09:34:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896391065673 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:34:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7A58FC12 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:34:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.14.2/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id m349APe7084427 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:10:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 166 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94A52377CE for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:10:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id A090E30; Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:10:24 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:10:24 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080404091024.GA13047@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Michel Talon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.166]); Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:10:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92/6575/Fri Apr 4 03:31:52 2008 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at jchkmail.jussieu.fr with ID 47F5F088.016 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 47F5F088.016/134.157.10.1/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr/ X-j-chkmail-Score: MSGID : 47F5F088.016 on jchkmail.jussieu.fr : j-chkmail score : . : R=. U=. O=. B=0.049 -> S=0.049 X-j-chkmail-Status: Ham Subject: Re: System hangs when /var partition full (vnode_pager_putpages errors) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:34:54 -0000 Maks Verver wrote: > I recently encountered an error, where executing the ImageMagick > "convert" > tool as an unpriviliged user caused the system to hang. > > The error is similar to one reported in 2004: > I had exactly the same problem recently under FreeBSD-6.3. I don't know if the problem was related to /var full since i was under X and the machine was completely frozen. It responded to ping and nothing else. The only solution was to press the reset button, and i had to do manual fsck after that because the machine panicked doing the background fsck. Very nasty bug (hence i did not investigate it further ...). -- Michel TALON