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From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
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To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
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Subject: Re: lockups
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[ CSLIP/PPP lockups ]

> 	I figured that there might be some inconsistancy in the 
> 	filesystem.  
> 
> 	Long-story-short: fsck'ing everything found that my /var
> 	fs was damaged.  It's been a day or two since I did the
> 	fs check and clean.  So far, so good.
> 
> 	You might want to try doing a number of fsck runs until
> 	everything is *clean*.   Reboot and see if the lockup
> 	problem reoccurs.

Note, fsck(8) in stable has a known bug that requires multiple passes in
order to completely cleanup the FS.  This bug appears to be fixed in
-current with a patch Terry Lambert submitted, but since I'm not FS guru
I won't vouch that I *completely* understand the fix.  That's the reason
it's in -current and not -stable, but if it's any consolation all of my
boxes are running with this patch on them. :)


Nate