Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:02:15 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd frezzes on a Compaq Proliant Message-ID: <l03130307b7442e24c7cb@[194.32.164.2]> In-Reply-To: <E157hHV-0001CF-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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At 18:39 +0100 6/6/01, Pete French wrote: >... Compaq Proliant machine, running an SMP kernel of 4.3-STABLE >... >The box will run fne for a period betwen a few hours and a few weeks. At >this point it semi freezes. I say semi because the symptoms are very odd. >Hitting return does not produce a login prompt. but you can ping the machine >so something is running. In fact you can not only ping it, but yu can even >open TCP connections to it and the cnnection succeds. No program on the >other end ever respnds however. telnet produces the usual >Trying 172.254.254.200... > >Connected to tixlink1. >Escape character is '^]'. > >but nothign else, and a similar result is observed from connecting >to the SMTP port or any other port on which things are listening. > >Examinign the logs after a reboot yields no information - theres nothing >in there to indicate what has gone wrong. Sometimes a reboot arrives at >exactly the same situation immediately, however. Sounds like the disk controllers(s) have wedged. Try DDB and see what states things are in. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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