Re: Filesystem problem

I'd also like to note that if I go into single user
mode and fsck a couple times -- it works fine still in
single user mode.  If I go back into multi-- up pops
the weasel.


--- Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Kevin Bockman wrote:
> 
> > Anyone have any suggestions?  I can not control-C
> out of 'man vmstat'. 
> > While doing 'make' in /usr/src/sys/boot it was
> hanging on as, when I
> > restarted it, it got to i386/libi386 and will not
> do anything else.  I'm
> > running that through serial console, it let me ^C
> out of that.  I tried
> > going into single user mode and running umount,
> now it just sits there
> > and I can't ^C.  I have no ideas, this was all
> working yesterday!! :-) 
> > 
> > Any ideas on what else to check or other helpful
> hints would help
> > bunches. 
> > 
> > Sorry for the cross-posts.  Just not sure where to
> go with this one. 
> 
> Could you show the output of:
> 
>   ps axlwww
> 
> when things are hanging?  I'm particularly
> interested in the WCHAN entries
> for hung processes and kernel threads.  That entry
> is the wait channel for
> kernel thread sleeps, which should give us some
> sense of what they're
> waiting for.  If it's a UFS bug of some sort, you'll
> likely see a lot of
> processes blocked in "inode" -- this could also
> happen in a hardware
> scenario, but should still be useful. In addition,
> do you have the entire
> serial console log output since boot?  It would be
> interesting to know if
> you've had kernel log messages regarding your hard
> disk controller, etc. 
> This might help distinguish a hardware problem from
> a software problem. 
> 
> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team,
> TrustedBSD Projects
> robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Network Associates
> Laboratories
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Kevin
> > 
> > 
> > 
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