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Date:      Mon, 31 May 2004 11:16:50 +1000
From:      Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
To:        Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com>
Cc:        "'current@freebsd.org'" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: sysctl lock, system lockup
Message-ID:  <20040531011650.GA12944@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337051D8DEA@mail.sandvine.com>
References:  <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337051D8DEA@mail.sandvine.com>

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On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 04:35:55PM -0400, Don Bowman wrote:
> From: Don Bowman [mailto:don@sandvine.com]
> > On the console i ran 'top', but it wouldn't start,
> > giving:
> > 
> > load: 0.00  cmd: top 4282 [sysctl lock] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 180k
> > 
> > as the status. I can't ^C it, can't ssh in.
> > can still ping the device.
> > 
> > It was doing a backgound fsck from an earlier hang.
> > 
> > i have called panic from db, not sure if the core will
> > work properly or not.
> 
> As a followup... i did get a vmcore, and matching kernel.debug,
> if someone can suggest what i might look @?

print sysctllock (or just sysctllock.sx_xholder if you don't have a
serial console set up.)


Tim



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