On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:52:11PM -0500, David Rhodus wrote: > > On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 01:39 PM, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > >Kirk McKusick wrote: > >>Does the background fsck process continue to run, or does the whole > >>system come to a halt? If the fsck process continues to run, what > >>happens when it eventually finishes? Is the system still dead, or > >>does it come back to life? If the system does not come back to life > >>can you get me the output of `ps axl'? If not, can you break into > >>the debugger and get a ps output? (You will need to have the DDB > >>option specified in your config file). > > > >OK, here is some more info.. > > > >I easily reproduced the problem again. So far it's 100% reproducible. > >This time to reproduce it simply booted in single user mode, typed > >"mount -a -t nonfs" and then pulled the plug. > > > >After the reboot, the HDD light soon stops blinking altogether. I > >waited for several minutes (which should have been long enough) and > >it never came back to life, which is not surprising considering > >there's no disk activity. > > > >Breaking into the debugger still works. However, pressing the soft > >power button no longer causes a graceful shutdown as it normally does. > > > >To copy the 'ps' debugger output, I'd have to manually copy it all, > >so here are just a few highlights: > > > >Proc State > >---- ----- > >fsck_ufs 0004000 norm[SLPQ nbufbs c036e5b0][SLP] > >fsck 0004002 norm[SLPQ wait c124dce8][SLP] > >syncer 0000204 norm[SLPQ nbufbs c036e5b0][SLP] > >vnlru 0000204 norm[SLPQ vlruwt c12c0ce8][SLP] > >bufdaemon 0000204 norm[SLPQ qsleep c036e5a4][SLP] > >swapper 0000200 norm[SLPQ sched c0315a20][SLP] > > > >Softupdates is enabled on /usr and /var but not /. > > > >This machine also acts as an NFS client for /home/archie. > > > > Why does softupdates not get enabled on / , by default on the install? > Read tuning(7).
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