Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Adam McDougall <mcdougall@ameritech.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TESTERS NEEDED: Softupdates looks Very good. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980714161500.13479G-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <35AB29C1.FFFF01E0@ameritech.net>
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I got a fix for some hanging sent to me today.. I will check it out and get back to you.. julian On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Adam McDougall wrote: > I have a partition solely for the source and ports tree with softupdates > enabled (and also /usr since things were going smoothly lately) but while > trying to build the XFree86 port on a kernel and system from approx. midnight, > it has been hanging the system.I noticed because ther compile stopped doing > anything, it just sat there, just like my telnets into the machine. I could > switch consoles, and I switched to a console that had been running top, and it > was running happily, but I noticed several Zombies as shown by the second line > of top. I use top -I so I didnt see what they were, but i assume they were the > proccesses that tried to run past the 'hang'. ctrl-alt-del did not work, I had > to cold boot the machine. This has happened twice tonight. I have a dpt 2144UW > HBA, p233mmx, and was using links to the latest ffs_softdep.c and softdep.h. > Is there something useful I could get out of DDB when this happens? I could > probably reproduce it. Anything else I could try to help analyze whats wrong? > Any more machine-specific info needed? Thanks > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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