From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 01:06:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8751D16A402 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 01:06:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE1313C4B2 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 01:06:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2516hxX055019 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:36:44 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Peter Jeremy Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:36:41 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200703011149.02601.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070301064442.GG837@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200703011735.37614.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200703011735.37614.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart13641778.VWCKfe0CRQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200703051136.42494.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.189 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fork wedging (I think) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:06:49 -0000 --nextPart13641778.VWCKfe0CRQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > in /rescue and use './sysctl' (and other commands in rescue). I think > > you will still be able to execute static executables in the current > > directory vis a relative path even if the FS is deadlocked. (As long > > as your shell isn't trying to write command history to a file). > > hmm.. I will see if I can maintain an open shell.. Going to be a PITA giv= en > the length of time between failures. I just logged in OK as it's done it again. Unfortunately it has a version of ATARAID which doesn't support crash dumps. Argh. I was incrementally dumping sysctl trees and when I got to vm it hung.. eureka:~>sysctl vm load: 0.07 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k load: 0.07 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k load: 0.07 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k load: 0.05 cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k I tried to reboot in another window but.. eureka:~>reboot load: 0.06 cmd: csh 71159 [allproc] 0.03u 0.00s 0% 4652k I am pondering an update to at least the ATA sub system so I can generate a= =20 crash dump though. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart13641778.VWCKfe0CRQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBF620i5ZPcIHs/zowRAnrzAJ48SMH6CqNx4z8hzkWWDO+b+2hBZgCfTa9I E1OxVogHGmKKrgI6oNNuD1Q= =7dYT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13641778.VWCKfe0CRQ--