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Date:      Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:02:15 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Odd frezzes  on a Compaq Proliant
Message-ID:  <l03130307b7442e24c7cb@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <E157hHV-0001CF-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>

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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.


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