fsck locks up SMP system (5.3-REL)

[Marco Beishuizen]

On stardate Wed, 22 Dec 2004, the wise Peter Risdon entered:

>> Well the problem didn't dissappear. I was just checking the filesystem with 
>> the midnight commander, and suddenly mc froze in "ufs"-state. Now I'm 
>> running fsck again.
>> 
>
> What's being logged? Lots of dma errors in /var/log/messages?
>
> Peter.

No, nothing strange is logged. Only sendmail things, which are normal for 
my system.

Marco
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