On 17/01/2008, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:59:27PM +0100, Bernhard Leiner wrote: > > On 05/01/2008, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to track down the same thing too. Two questions: did you try > > > forcing the box to drop to ddb to see what's happening? I was advised > > > that ddb(4) and crash(8) man pages may be useful to get some > > > information out of it. Another, I was advised to try running "dd > > > if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null bs=64k" (or something similar) to read the > > > whole disk, and look in syslog for any disk errors. My disks show some > > > errors, so my bug hunting session is postponed until I rule out disk > > > problems (ie get a new disk...) > > > > My disk looks ok. > > How did you check it? Either all my disks are bad, or I am checking in > wrong way...
fsck does not find any errors and I also tried the method you wrote about. Read the whole disk with "dd if=/dev/wd1a of=/dev/null bs=64k" without getting any messages in /var/log/messages. > Try setting ddb.console=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and sending BREAK over > serial (in cu that would be ~#) Thanks. I will try that.
