From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 6 12: 5:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isbalham.ist.co.uk (isbalham.ist.co.uk [192.31.26.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE54937B405 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by isbalham.ist.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f56J5Me93280; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:05:22 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) Received: from [194.32.164.2] (eccles [194.32.164.2]) by seagoon.gid.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA68501; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:02:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rb@gid.co.uk) X-Sender: rb@194.32.164.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:02:15 +0100 To: Pete French From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: Odd frezzes on a Compaq Proliant Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 18:39 +0100 6/6/01, Pete French wrote: >... Compaq Proliant machine, running an SMP kernel of 4.3-STABLE >... >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. Sounds like the disk controllers(s) have wedged. Try DDB and see what states things are in. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message