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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2005 14:46:32 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Elliot Finley <efinleywork@efinley.com>
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?
Message-ID:  <42889628.20103@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com>
References:  <001801c55a14$609720d0$37cba1cd@emerytelcom.com>

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Elliot Finley wrote:
> This has been happening since 5.3-R, I've been tuning different paramet=
ers
> to no avail.  I've taken the disks off of the onboard ICH5 controller a=
nd
> put them a promise TX4 S150 controller, but still the same thing happen=
s.
>=20
> The system freezes, but isn't totally dead.  It'll still respond to pin=
gs,
> the screensaver still functions, but it won't respond to a CAD at the
> console.  But if I press 'Enter' at the console, it'll give me a 'login=
:'
> prompt, but after entering the username, it never comes back with the
> 'password:' prompt.
>=20
> After manually resetting the system it boots and says 'Automatic file s=
ystem
> check failed; help!' and drops into single user mode.  Running fsck man=
ually
> corrects errors on all volumes.  Then it'll boot from that point.
>=20
> This seems to be triggered by daily periodic as it happens at 3:02-3:03=
AM
> each time.  But it doesn't happen *every* morning.

Hmm, sounds as a deadlock somewhere.
On the ATA part, try the ATA mkIII patches on=20
http://people.freebsd.org/~sos/ATA and see if that changes anything.

--=20

-S=F8ren




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