On Thursday, 13 May 1999 at 14:19:23 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > I've had a couple of these in a 3.2-BETA box today: > > May 13 14:11:51 daemon /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error > code=16) > May 13 14:11:57 daemon /kernel: size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, > valid: 0x0 > May 13 14:11:57 daemon /kernel: nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 16 > > After that, the system is effectively dead. This is the same system I > normally run -CURRENT on, so it's not specifically a hardware error. > It's a pity that the message doesn't specify the device, but I assume > it has to be the swap partition. There aren't any other error > messages. error appears to be bp->b_error, which means it's an EBUSY, > which is puzzling enough as it is.
Well, it looks as if it's a dying disk. Sorry for the false alarm. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger g...@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
