Portupgrade, -CURRENT & SMP

Sean rsh.lists at comcast.net
Wed Jun 29 22:14:12 GMT 2005


Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> Sean wrote:
> 
>> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have three machines which I just upgraded from 5.4 to -CURRENT.  
>>> They are two SMP desktops and a UP laptop.
>>>
>>> After building world and installing, I started to run portupgrade on 
>>> my systems.  On the laptop, everything has been running smoothly..  
>>> On both SMP systems, portupgrade hangs.  top shows the ruby18 process 
>>> stuck in the *vnode state.  On one machine, which I can't physically 
>>> access, it's been this way for hours.  I can't ssh into this machine, 
>>> and only have access to sessions that were connected before the 
>>> hang.  On my home machine (which I can physically access), I've been 
>>> able to log in on the virtual consoles and reboot when this happens 
>>> (though it's not ever able to sync all buffers and cleanly unmount 
>>> /).  It's now happened with 5 or 6 consecutive attempts at 
>>> portupgrade on this machine.  The most recent time this happened, on 
>>> a hunch, I built a UP kernel, rebooted, and tried portupgrade again.  
>>> It's now been running for two hours without hanging (previous record 
>>> was less than five minutes).
>>>
>>> I've googled around a bit for this problem, but haven't come across 
>>> anythign yet.  Has anyone seen this before?  I'll gladly submit a pr, 
>>> but I'm just looking for more idea, or maybe some confirmation from 
>>> others who have seen this.
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
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>>
>> Same problem here, with no solution for the problem.
>>
>>             Sean
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> 
> Well, since I at least know that I'm not alone in this, I've submitted a 
> pr (after searching for one with SMP and portupgrade and coming up blank):
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=82730
> 
> Anyone having this problem, please take note and add your own comments 
> if possible.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
So I guess for now we have to rebuild the kernel to go SMP, portupgrade, 
then rebuild back to SMP. Annoying.

Sean


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