gmirrored boot drives locks up during buildworld

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 15 05:30:56 PST 2005


On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:22:51AM -0500, Michael Boers wrote:
+> In addition to enabling HTT in the bios, I have made the following 
+> changes to the kernel, 
+> 
+> options	SMP 
+> options	MPTABLE_FORCE_HTT  
+> options	MP_WATCHDOG 
+> 
+> and set the following flags 
+> 
+> kern.geom.mirror.debug=1 
+> debug.watchdog=1 
+> 
+> I reran the "while (true) do make clean; make buildworld; done" test 
+> and the machine has locked up as before. 

If it didn't enter to the debugger, it is not a hard lockup.

+> I have not touched the machine yet.  Is there any other info I can 
+> provide? 

Yes, can you enter to the debugger and:

db> ps
[find interesting processes like gmirror or processes which are sleeping
 on for example g_topology_lock]
db> tr <pid1>
db> tr <pid2>

and send me the output?

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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