Strange behaviour

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jan 21 10:27:33 PST 2004


On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:28:27PM -0500, Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
> I have one -CURRENT client:
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2392.25-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf27  Stepping = 7
>  
> Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
> CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,
> SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
>   Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
> real memory  = 1073610752 (1023 MB)
> avail memory = 1045266432 (996 MB)
> ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE2650  >
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> 
> which, when installing a new world (via nfs), consistently hangs at the end
> with:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Rebuilding man page indices
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> cd /usr/src/share/man; make makedb
> makewhatis /usr/share/man
> 
> 
> The box is useable at this point, however. I have been simply rebooting the
> machine, and then running the above commands by hand after the reboot. While
> 'installworld' is hung (at the end, as above), this is in a 'top':
> 
> 19107 root      -4    0   992K   896K getblk 1   0:01  0.00%  0.00%
> makewhatis

How long has it been "hung" for?  If you have a slow network you might
be killing it while it is doing work.

Do you have rpc.lockd and statd running on both client and server?

Kris
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