bgfsck hosed (lockups) in -current?

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> I have current as of last week.
>
> I noticed that if I needed a bgfsck on ufs when rebooting my system would 
> lock up almost immediately.  Everything would deadlock.
>
> If I rebooted single user and did a regular "fsck -y" then continued to 
> boot, I'd be OK.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?  I'm going to update to the most recent 
> current and get more information (which wait channels etc) but wanted to 
> know if anyone knew about this.
>
> I recall seeing a LOT of fixes for various deadlocks in snapshots and bgfsck 
> going in lately, but nothing that looked to me as if it'd trigger a 
> regression.

I'm not seeing this either -- have you tried running a manual fsck to see if 
it turns up anything deeply unsatisfying that could be causing bgfsck some 
bother?

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge