Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 18:39:45 +0100 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Odd frezzes on a Compaq Proliant Message-ID: <E157hHV-0001CF-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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This is a problem that I thought had gone away with the latest stable, but apprently not. We have a Compaq Proliant machine, running an SMP kernel of 4.3-STABLE form shortly after 4.3-RELEASE came out. It has two Thunderlan cards, a ciuple of SCSI cards and is completel.y idle as we are not actually using it for anything just yet - I need to convince myself that it is stable before putting anythign serious onto it. The box will run fne for a period betwen a few hours and a few weeks. At this point it semi freezes. I say semi because the symptoms are very odd. Hitting return does not produce a login prompt. but you can ping the machine so something is running. In fact you can not only ping it, but yu can even open TCP connections to it and the cnnection succeds. No program on the other end ever respnds however. telnet produces the usual Trying 172.254.254.200... Connected to tixlink1. Escape character is '^]'. but nothign else, and a similar result is observed from connecting to the SMTP port or any other port on which things are listening. Examinign the logs after a reboot yields no information - theres nothing in there to indicate what has gone wrong. Sometimes a reboot arrives at exactly the same situation immediately, however. Has anybody seen anything similar ? Can anybody suggest a way of setting about debugging this ? -pcf. [it also happens on non-SMP kernels as well by the way] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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