Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:58:29 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: system hangs with soft updates Message-ID: <19980915195829.A271@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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I've been trying out the soft updates stuff, but my system seems to hang when I use it. What I've done: . linked the sources into /sys/ufs/ffs . added `options SOFTUPDATES' to /sys/i386/conf/SCIENTIA . config SCIENTIA . cd /sys/compile/SCIENTIA ; make depend ; make . cp kernel /kernel.soft Then I boot in single user mode from that kernel, do `tunefs -n enable /tmp ; mount /tmp', and when stuff is written to /tmp, the system just hangs a short while later and doesn't respond to anything (except Alt-F[123], but since I can't log in to those terminals, that isn't much help). eg, I did cd /tmp cp -Rp /etc . which worked fine, with practically no disk access, but then the disk light came on, stayed on, and I had to resort to that annoying little reset button. At least if the damn thing would crash it might give people some clues as to what the problem is... Is there some step I've missed? Has anyone else experienced similar problems? Is rebuilding the world likely to help? -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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