On 11/10/2007, Dmitry Slobodchikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > My server freezed periodically like a log. > I can't understand why. There are no any special software and non > standard core, only packages from the same release. > > Server got router role and many people depend on it. > > Just freeze....... > > > Please ask me additional information more than I send now-)
It's probably totally unrelated, but I once managed to freeze an OpenBSD box after attempting to make it automagically back up stuff to a Windows Server 2003 box. In my case, I had installed sharity-light (a package allowing you to access CIFS/SMB shares) and I had tried to tell it to mount the CIFS/SMB share at some mountpoint -- this is when it froze. It turned out that pf (which I had running on the OpenBSD box) blocked some port that was needed for proper communication between sharity-light and Windows Server 2003. I could only troubleshoot by first ssh-ing into the OpenBSD box, then making the mount attempt from the actual local keyboard/monitor of the OpenBSD box (where things duly froze) and then using the preexisting ssh session to troubleshoot and look at what was happening with tcpdump(8) (cf. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/logging.html ). If I didn't have a preexisting ssh console open when making the mount attempt, then I couldn't ssh into the box anymore from the moment of it freezing (which meant there was no way to stop the madness, not even with a local Ctrl+C; in that case I had to power cycle the machine). But with a preexisting ssh session un-freezing the OpenBSD box was as simple as punching a big hole into pf.conf (or disabling pf). Again, you don't seem to be using sharity-light (at least it's not in your below package list), but I thought I'd tell ya anyway; maybe something along these lines might help you or a future reader of the archives. For the record, my above problems happened with OpenBSD 3.9 -release/i386 and the appropriate sharity-light package. cheerio, ropers > There are following packages: > > bash-3.1.17 > expat-2.0.0 > freetype-1.3.1p2 > gettext-0.14.5p1 > glib2-2.10.3 > jpeg-6bp3 > libiconv-1.9.2p3 > mc-4.6.1p0 > mysql-client-5.0.22 > mysql-server-5.0.22 > p5-Bit-Vector-6.4p0 > p5-Carp-Clan-5.3p0 > p5-DBD-mysql-2.9004 > p5-DBI-1.51 > p5-Date-Calc-5.4 > p5-Net-Daemon-0.39 > p5-PlRPC-0.2018 > php4-core-4.4.1p1 > php4-gd-4.4.1p4-no_x11 > php4-mysql-4.4.1p0 > png-1.2.12 > recode-3.6p3 > t1lib-5.1.0p0 > trafd-3.0.1 > trafshow-3.1 > unzip-5.52 > zip-2.32
