From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 22:49:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA60816A476 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:49:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.68.41]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5D013C4F5 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:49:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m1CMnC2B006502; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:49:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:49:12 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200802122249.m1CMnChV006501@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:49:31 -0000 On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:16:59 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >> It does it every time, so it is certainly repeatable. Is this a >> known problem? Or is there some feature of GELI-encrypted file systems >> that is expected to have problems running scripts? (I do not know whether >> the problem is limited to /bin/csh scripts. After several crashes in just >> a few minutes, I decided I had had enough of that for one night.) >> If anyone has seen this happen before, please let me know. > >This is absolutely not a common problem, and it's unlikely that the >shell script is the direct cause of the reboots. Are there any messages >written on the console juse before the reboots? Are the reboots actually None. >kernel panics? If so, you'll need to track down the messages and report >them >(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html), The kernel panics I've seen in the past all hung the system cold and required powering it down in order to reboot it. The current situation involves a pause of one or two seconds, followed by a black screen, then the Dell startup splash screen, and then the screen displayed by my boot manager, offering a choice of Windows XP or FreeBSD. It's all very fast. I'm not at all sure that a final sync(2) is even done. >if not, it's maybe a hardware problem. Is there something unusual about >your hardware? > I don't think so. It's a Dell Inspiron XPS w/1 GB of memory, a Mobility Radeon 9800 card, and several devices attached to USB ports. The CPU is a 3.4 GHz P4 w/HT enabled in chipset, BIOS, and kernel. There is also a Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS PCMCIA card in the slot. There is no software support for 3D acceleration on the graphics card and no software support for the sound card. There is a builtin sound setup for which there does seem to be some limited software support. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************