Re: UPDATE: Server hanged on VFS lock problem

2007-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:39:49PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >FYI I tried to contact you off-list but you posted with an invalid > >address so I didn't bother. > > Sorry, my mistake. This is a valid address. > Why didn't you cc the list, though? Because I was tryi

Re: UPDATE: Server hanged on VFS lock problem

2007-03-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Kris Kennaway wrote: FYI I tried to contact you off-list but you posted with an invalid address so I didn't bother. Sorry, my mistake. This is a valid address. Why didn't you cc the list, though? I appreciate your help, in any case. Thanks. bye av. _

Re: UPDATE: Server hanged on VFS lock problem

2007-03-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 09:20:30PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > >Is there a way I can get these dumps automatically, without entering > >DDB, since this is an unattended server? > > I still don't know if it's possible to get dump and get going... I don't > think

UPDATE: Server hanged on VFS lock problem

2007-03-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Is there a way I can get these dumps automatically, without entering DDB, since this is an unattended server? I still don't know if it's possible to get dump and get going... I don't think so, actually... Anyway I found debug.vfs_badlock_ddb=0 should allow this unatten

Server hanged on VFS lock problem

2007-03-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Yesterday a 6.2/amd64 SMP server of mine entered DDB after a problem with locks. Since I was not there, I instructed one user to type "panic" and I got a dump. Here's what I get: x# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/lib