From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 12 22:28:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB105155BD for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 22:28:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA04559 for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:58:31 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA30806 for FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 13 May 1999 14:58:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 14:58:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD current users Subject: Solved: Repeated I/O errors in 3.2-BETA Message-ID: <19990513145831.A30789@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990513141923.K89091@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990513141923.K89091@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:19:23PM +0930 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 13 May 1999 at 14:19:23 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've had a couple of these in a 3.2-BETA box today: > > May 13 14:11:51 daemon /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=16) > May 13 14:11:57 daemon /kernel: size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, valid: 0x0 > May 13 14:11:57 daemon /kernel: nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 16 > > After that, the system is effectively dead. This is the same system I > normally run -CURRENT on, so it's not specifically a hardware error. > It's a pity that the message doesn't specify the device, but I assume > it has to be the swap partition. There aren't any other error > messages. error appears to be bp->b_error, which means it's an EBUSY, > which is puzzling enough as it is. Well, it looks as if it's a dying disk. Sorry for the false alarm. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message