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Date:      Wed, 18 Jan 2006 03:46:26 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade eats my swap space
Message-ID:  <20060118084626.GA2506@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20060118144400.00a51d90@127.0.0.1>
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:50:10PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:

> OK, my problem doesn't seem to be exactly the same. My machine hangs, and 
> when I check it the console screen is filled with the message, "swap-pager: 
> indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 26650, size: 4096" and at that 
> point the only thing I can do is a hard reboot -- it's not reacting to 
> input at all.

You probably have a failing HD.  Back up and replace before the damage
becomes worse and you lose data.

> My /etc/make.conf in its entirety is
> 
> # added by use.perl 2006-01-18 08:04:37
> PERL_VER=5.8.7
> PERL_VERSION=5.8.7
> 
> I was surprised to find there is no /etc/defaults/make.conf any more -- 
> that may have something to do with it. I haven't been paying very close 
> attention until now.

Nope, it's in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf now.  The file is
entirely commented out so it was a NOP to have it in /etc/defaults.

Kris

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