From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 00:17:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151CC16A4D3 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:17:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5351743D3F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:17:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wilkinsa@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au with ESMTP id i7O0GRfl024993 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:46:27 +0930 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by ednmsw503.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.10) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:47:02 +0930 Received: from ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au (ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.81]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id i7O0AAw02806; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:40:11 +0930 (CST) Received: from squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.40.211]) by ednex501.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id QXSX9P4N; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:40:09 +0930 Received: from squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i7O0ADSu003667 ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:40:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from wilkinsa@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: (from wilkinsa@localhost) by squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i7O0ADoI003666; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:40:13 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from wilkinsa) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:40:13 +0930 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" To: buga@auug.org.au, questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040824001012.GA3651@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mail-Followup-To: buga@auug.org.au, questions@freebsd.org References: <20040823235451.GC3368@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20040824000009.GD3368@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040824000009.GD3368@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> X-Message-Flag: "Beware of Outlook! It Bites You Eventually" User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [BUGA] df(1) && vnconfig(8) hanging .... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:17:15 -0000 0n Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:30:09AM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: 0n Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:24:51AM +0930, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: This morning I wanted to edit an ISO to instruct the kernel to redirect its output to serial. i.e # sudo vnconfig -v -c /dev/vn0 5.3-BETA1-i386-miniinst.iso # sudo mount -t cd9660 -o rw /dev/vn0 /mnt # sudo tcsh # echo "/boot/loader -h" > boot.config boot.config: Read-only file system. Forget the afforementioned error. The problem that I have is now when I issue a df(1) my shell hangs: e.g. # df -h ^C^C^D ^C^C^D # ps -aux | grep df username 3333 0.0 0.0 212 96 p2 D+ 9:04AM 0:00.00 df -h username 3332 0.0 0.0 212 96 p1 D+ 9:04AM 0:00.00 df -h # kill -9 3333 3332 # ps -aux | grep df username 3333 0.0 0.0 212 96 p2 D+ 9:04AM 0:00.00 df -h username 3332 0.0 0.0 212 96 p1 D+ 9:04AM 0:00.00 df -h No change. I'm not sure what has hung here, nor am I sure how to 'un-hang' my shell. Any thoughts anyone ? - aW To follow up to my own question, an NFS server not responding .... DOH ! - aW To follow-up again, why doesn't this work ? # sudo umount -v -t nfs -f /cdrom/ports/distfiles Just hangs. Surely you can force an un-mount of an NFS filesystem ? - aW