Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:51:39 -0600 From: "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@orac.ece.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a.out and disk-wait hangs Message-ID: <19981109205139.A19372@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091708050.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:08:38PM -0800 References: <19981105022812.A8060@orac.ece.utexas.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091708050.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 05:08:38PM -0800, Doug White wrote: > On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > > > If I try to run an a.out version of Netscape on a 3.0-RELEASE > > box, it hangs after a second or two in getblk. > > Can't say I can coroborate that. Netscape works fine on my CURRENT box. It turns out, it's something to do with NFS. My home directory is from a NetBSD-1.3.2 server. When I run netscape, ktrace shows that the process gets hung while looking at my ~/.netscape files. I tried using an NFS v2 mount, with the same result. As root (with home directory in /root, and thus local), netscape has no problem. We've had no problems with NetBSD NFS servers in the past, including NetBSD, FreeBSD-pre-3.0, Linux, and Solaris clients. I've had the August snapshot interacting with NetBSD with few problems for months on a different machine, so I'm leaning towards it being due to a change in FreeBSD since then, but of course that's not conclusive... If someone familiar with NFS would be willing to look at it, I can try to capture the NFS traffic with tcpdump and send it. I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but this is on a dual P-II system, straight from Dell, so I'm running with SMP enabled. As I mentioned on the freebsd-smp list, one disturbing thing is that the ktrace output has garbage characters in it at spots.... some kind of corruption, perhaps? Any help appreciated... Brian -- "NO!!!" - The MOB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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