From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 08:12:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18435 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:12:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA18270 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:09:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ip@albatross.mcc.ac.uk) Received: from albatross.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.202.16] by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.651 #21) id 0xT80n-0007Vq-00; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:08:57 +0000 Received: (from ip@localhost) by albatross.mcc.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.4) id QAA16044 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:08:57 GMT From: Ian Pallfreeman Message-Id: <199711051608.QAA16044@albatross.mcc.ac.uk> Subject: fsck dies with sigfpe on a P-II To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:08:57 +0000 (GMT) Reply-To: ip@mcc.ac.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a new (but cheap) 266MHz P-II with 128Mb of memory and 3*2940s. Two of the 2940s have 4*4Gb external disks attached, with some old Sun disks and an Exabyte on the first 2940. I've had loads of problems with the 2*4*4Gb disks, which I've eventually (I think) traced to our purchasing people saving a couple of pounds on the SCSI cables -- new cables, no problem, so far... To make sure I've ironed out the problems with the external disks, cabling, etc, I've been running "newfs;sync;fsck;sync" on each disk, concurrently. Every so often, I get: pid 519 (fsck), uid 0: exited on signal 8 (core dumped) I've looked at the core dump stack trace, but it doesn't make sense to me, particularly as it's an intermittent problem, about once per hour. I've built a kernel with the npx flags set to 0x7 (grasping at straws), but it's still happening. This is a 2.2-STABLE system, about a week old. Anyone have any ideas about this? TIA, Ian. -- Network Unit, SNOT Team, Manchester Computing, The University, Manchester, UK. mail: ip@mcc.ac.uk | phone: +44-161-275-6006 | fax: +44-161-275-6040 Where once we had dragons to slay, now we just sacrifice chickens. 28,000 users, 155Mb/s networking, and a 486. :-(