From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 15 15:51:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA28664 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zone.syracuse.net (zone.syracuse.net [205.232.47.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA28658 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:51:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by zone.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA00250; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:47:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:47:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@zone.syracuse.net To: Ben Smithurst cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: system hangs with soft updates In-Reply-To: <19980915195829.A271@scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you _SURE_ those are the tunefs(8) commands you typed? Are you also sure that you weren't doing it to a slice in dev? AND if you did it to a slice in /dev, are you _SURE_ that it was an uncooked device? (i.e. r{wd,sd,da}0s1a) Cheers, Brian Feldman On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Ben Smithurst wrote: > I've been trying out the soft updates stuff, but my system seems to > hang when I use it. What I've done: > > . linked the sources into /sys/ufs/ffs > . added `options SOFTUPDATES' to /sys/i386/conf/SCIENTIA > . config SCIENTIA > . cd /sys/compile/SCIENTIA ; make depend ; make > . cp kernel /kernel.soft > > Then I boot in single user mode from that kernel, do `tunefs -n enable > /tmp ; mount /tmp', and when stuff is written to /tmp, the system just > hangs a short while later and doesn't respond to anything (except > Alt-F[123], but since I can't log in to those terminals, that isn't > much help). > > eg, I did > > cd /tmp > cp -Rp /etc . > > which worked fine, with practically no disk access, but then the disk > light came on, stayed on, and I had to resort to that annoying little > reset button. At least if the damn thing would crash it might give > people some clues as to what the problem is... > > Is there some step I've missed? Has anyone else experienced similar > problems? Is rebuilding the world likely to help? > > -- > Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ > > PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 > http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message