From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 19: 6: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mts-121.wallnet.com (mts-130.wallnet.com [208.225.162.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1FE37B40B for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 19:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mts-121.wallnet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mts-121.wallnet.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4LM5rrJ003623 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 22:05:54 GMT (envelope-from timothyk@mts-121.wallnet.com) Received: by mts-121.wallnet.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4LM5q5M003622 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 May 2002 22:05:52 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Tim Kellers To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dell PE 2400 hangs in multi-user Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 22:05:51 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200205212205.51500.timothyk@mts-104.wallnet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dell PE 2400 512MB RAM, single PII processor running 4.6 RC (cvsupped an= d=20 built today). In single-user mode,all is well with this server, I can add/delete files,= make=20 buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot (into single-use= r=20 mode), etc. All is well. When I boot into multi-user mode, the system hanges if I start any script= s in=20 /usr/local/etc/rc.d, I cannot ssh into the box, I can telnet, but any com= mand=20 I issue that involves a write to the hard drive hangs the system. =20 Additionally, if I issue a reboot command, the tty I type it on hangs.=20 issuing a "top" on another tty shows "reboot" queued and waiting for=20 god-knows-what. A 'shutdown now' stops all processes but never drops th= e=20 machine to "syncing disks" and the machine needs a brute force power off/= on=20 to shutdown/restart. I rebuilt the world. the kernel, installed the new kernel and the new wor= ld=20 this morning --no change. I yanked out the hard drive, put in another,=20 installed 4.5-RELEASE from CD, and the machine has been happily running i= n=20 multi-user mode all day and all night. What on earth could be wrong? I'm going to put the original drive back i= n the=20 box tomorrow morning and dump the whole thing to my tape drive (there is = a=20 lot of stuff on that drive --mysql databases, mostly-- that I'd hate to l= ose. Any ideas, pointers or references are welcome; I'm having trouble=20 comprehending this one. TIA Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message