From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 20:29:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09799 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA09697 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 03:29:16 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA18089; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:28:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Chris Dillon cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: weird hang problem with MSDOSFS in 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Chris Dillon wrote: > I have a 2.2.5 system running on a Compaq Proliant(?) 486/66 server that > has been up 45 days now (and counting), and just experienced a problem I > haven't had before with it. I mounted a DOS formatted floppy to backup > the only important data on the machine (the bind databases) and things > went awry. I tarred up the stuff, threw it on a floppy, did an ls to see > what else was there, and ls hung before showing me anything. Switching to > a second term, i type mount, it hangs. I try to umount -f the mountpoint, > and it hangs, too. ps shows that it is in an uninterruptible disk wait, > so trying to kill the processes doesn't do much good. I've had this > happen before on my system at home, and I just rebooted to fix it. I > really don't want to reboot this box unless I have to. :-) Really, kill -9 didn't do anything? > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND > root 13982 0.0 1.1 168 516 v0 D+ 3:29PM 0:00.07 colorls > -G -k -F /dos/a > root 13993 0.0 0.1 204 56 v1 D+ 3:30PM 0:00.02 mount > root 14020 0.0 0.2 280 68 v2 D+ 3:31PM 0:00.08 umount -f > /dos/a > > Is there ANY way I can remedy this without rebooting the machine, or even > just free up my terminals? ^C in the sessions does't help? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message