On Wednesday 18 May 2005 17:03, Jamie Heckford wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:40:01AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote: > > This has been happening since 5.3-R, I've been tuning different > > parameters to no avail. I've taken the disks off of the onboard ICH5 > > controller and put them a promise TX4 S150 controller, but still the same > > thing happens. > > > > The system freezes, but isn't totally dead. It'll still respond to > > pings, 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. > > > > After manually resetting the system it boots and says 'Automatic file > > system check failed; help!' and drops into single user mode. Running > > fsck manually corrects errors on all volumes. Then it'll boot from that > > point. > > > > This seems to be triggered by daily periodic as it happens at 3:02-3:03AM > > each time. But it doesn't happen *every* morning. > > > > I suspect a bug in FreeBSD because this mode of failure happens on 3 > > different machines, all configured similarly. > > > > ASUS P4P800 > > 2G RAM (though the other affected systems only have 1G) > > 80G Seagate Barracuda SATA drives (one system now on Promise TX4 S150 > > controller, others on onboard ICH5) > > > > On my lightly loaded systems, it happens rarely. On my mailserver > > (fairly heavy disk load), it happens quite frequently. > > > > How can I troubleshoot this? > > > Help? ;)
There is a bug in "machine/bus.h" (was: "machine/bus_at386.h") that might cause random freezes, but I'm not sure if it is related: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80980 --HPS _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
