Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-03 Thread Oliver Lehmann
cpghost wrote: > If it's PATA, check the cabling, then check it again, and just to > make sure, replace the cable even if the system used to work flawlessly > in the past. I've had this on a few servers, but replacing the cables > always fixed the problem for me. It's SATA - it's a 3ware 9500S-4

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-02 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:51:06PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > today I'd a crash again - I was not able to get a crash dump (thought a > > "panic" at the end of the kdb would do it but didn't - should have called > > dumpon before ;)) - so here now the information I was able to retrieve: > >

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-02 Thread Oliver Lehmann
John Baldwin wrote: > Sounds like your disk has died, or perhaps the controller is hung and not > completing disk I/O requests anymore. Hm - the 3ware eventlog does not shed any light on this - no events occured. So I can just guess that the controller and the disks are fine (I had once a hard f

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-02 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:29:43 am Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > today I'd a crash again - I was not able to get a crash dump (thought a > "panic" at the end of the kdb would do it but didn't - should have called > dumpon before ;)) - so here now the information I was able to retrieve: >

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-02 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > today I'd a crash again - I was not able to get a crash dump (thought a > "panic" at the end of the kdb would do it but didn't - should have called > dumpon before ;)) - so here now the information I was able to retrieve: > > Ok, what I've got so far is wrinting s

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-02 Thread Oliver Fromme
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > - Maxim MAX211ECA1, no idea but doesn't interest me Just for completeness, this is a serial port driver IC. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschä

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-01 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:53:09AM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Because it is a Server Board it offers a lot of managing features and > > other nice things like serial console at bootup and system monitoring > > features... but all unsupported withn FreeBSDs software

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-01 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi, today I'd a crash again - I was not able to get a crash dump (thought a "panic" at the end of the kdb would do it but didn't - should have called dumpon before ;)) - so here now the information I was able to retrieve: Ok, what I've got so far is wrinting stuff out to the console when the syst

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-10-01 Thread Jim Pingle
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > P.S. -- You're the 2nd person I've encountered in under a week who's > using 440BX/GX-based hardware in present day. I would not be > surprised if the board is simply going bad/failing due to age. :-) I still have quite a few of these in active use. They are good workhor

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:53:09AM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > I can't find anything on Intel's site that clues me in; all the PDFs > > are vague as far as what chips are on the board. > > Have you tried the Product specifications? No need -- Charles Sprickman sen

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I can't find anything on Intel's site that clues me in; all the PDFs > are vague as far as what chips are on the board. Have you tried the Product specifications? http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/l440gx/254151-003.pdf Beginning on page 33 (43 of the

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:55:34PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:39:27PM +0200, Bartosz Stec wrote: > > > Personally I'd rather bet on some hardware problem (overheating?) Try to > > > install mbmon from ports. I had also similiar

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 10:57:19 am Oliver Lehmann wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > > (CTRL+ALT+ESC) and run 'panic' to generate a crash dump. > > problem here is, that after some memory upgrade my swapspace is no longer > bigh enough to cover the memory size. I'll try this as a last resort

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
John Baldwin wrote: > (CTRL+ALT+ESC) and run 'panic' to generate a crash dump. problem here is, that after some memory upgrade my swapspace is no longer bigh enough to cover the memory size. I'll try this as a last resort if the interactive work with kdb does not provide any help and will remove

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:39:27PM +0200, Bartosz Stec wrote: > > Personally I'd rather bet on some hardware problem (overheating?) Try to > > install mbmon from ports. I had also similiar problems with old > > motherboards with swelled capacitors. > > Be careful

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 29 September 2008 04:14:08 pm Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > My fileserver has sporadical hangups running 6.3: > > FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 19 00:21:00 CEST 2008 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/i386-pentium3-6.3/usr/src/sys/NUDEL > > The exact release doesn't matter since it h

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:39:27PM +0200, Bartosz Stec wrote: > Oliver Lehmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My fileserver has sporadical hangups running 6.3: >> >> FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 19 00:21:00 CEST 2008 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/i386-pentium3-6.3/usr/src/sys/NUDEL >> >> The exact relea

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:14 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Any idea what I could do to shed some more light on this behaviour? Why it is happening and what really is causing it? Would enabling the kernel debugger really help here? I mean the syste

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Bartosz Stec
Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, My fileserver has sporadical hangups running 6.3: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 19 00:21:00 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/i386-pentium3-6.3/usr/src/sys/NUDEL The exact release doesn't matter since it happened before. It always happens afer some time of hav

Re: system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-30 Thread Gavin Atkinson
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:14 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Any idea what I could do to shed some more light on this behaviour? > Why it is happening and what really is causing it? > Would enabling the kernel debugger really help here? I mean the system > is really hanging up - except ping

system hangup - I'm lost

2008-09-29 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi, My fileserver has sporadical hangups running 6.3: FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 19 00:21:00 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/i386-pentium3-6.3/usr/src/sys/NUDEL The exact release doesn't matter since it happened before. It always happens afer some time of having some load on the sys