5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related?

Jamie Heckford jamie at tridentmicrosystems.co.uk
Wed May 18 08:03:18 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:40:01AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote:
> This has been happening since 5.3-R, I've been tuning different parameters
> to no avail.  I've taken the disks off of the onboard ICH5 controller and
> put them a promise TX4 S150 controller, but still the same thing happens.
> 
> The system freezes, but isn't totally dead.  It'll still respond to pings,
> the screensaver still functions, but it won't respond to a CAD at the
> console.  But if I press 'Enter' at the console, it'll give me a 'login:'
> prompt, but after entering the username, it never comes back with the
> 'password:' prompt.
> 
> After manually resetting the system it boots and says 'Automatic file system
> check failed; help!' and drops into single user mode.  Running fsck manually
> corrects errors on all volumes.  Then it'll boot from that point.
> 
> This seems to be triggered by daily periodic as it happens at 3:02-3:03AM
> each time.  But it doesn't happen *every* morning.
> 
> I suspect a bug in FreeBSD because this mode of failure happens on 3
> different machines, all configured similarly.
> 
> ASUS P4P800
> 2G RAM (though the other affected systems only have 1G)
> 80G Seagate Barracuda SATA drives (one system now on Promise TX4 S150
> controller, others on onboard ICH5)
> 
> On my lightly loaded systems, it happens rarely.  On my mailserver (fairly
> heavy disk load), it happens quite frequently.
> 
> How can I troubleshoot this?

Managed to get a dump on our system for a similar prob we are getting:

[GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol "ps_pglobal_lookup"]
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#0  doadump () at pcpu.h:160
160             __asm __volatile("movl %%fs:0,%0" : "=r" (td));
(kgdb) bt
#0  doadump () at pcpu.h:160
#1  0xc05131ae in boot (howto=260) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:410
#2  0xc0513474 in panic (fmt=0xc06c3da5 "%s") at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:566
#3  0xc0691e18 in trap_fatal (frame=0xecb4bb34, eva=532) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:817
#4  0xc0691b73 in trap_pfault (frame=0xecb4bb34, usermode=0, eva=532) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:735
#5  0xc0691771 in trap (frame=
      {tf_fs = -1068433384, tf_es = -989790192, tf_ds = 16, tf_edi = -1066124736, tf_esi = -1066124736, tf_ebp = -323699844, tf_isp = -323699872, tf_ebx = -1007063716, tf_edx = 528, tf_ecx = -1013235680, tf_eax = 307472464, tf_trapno = 12, tf_err = 2, tf_eip = -1067870386, tf_cs = 8, tf_eflags = 66050, tf_esp = -989760240, tf_ss = -1007063716}) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:425
#6  0xc068168a in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:140
#7  0xc0510018 in crcopy () at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_prot.c:1810
#8  0xc0598c77 in in_pcbdetach (inp=0xc0743a40) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/in_pcb.c:720
#9  0xc05b21a6 in tcp_close (tp=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_subr.c:783
#10 0xc05ae560 in tcp_input (m=0xc3a6a300, off0=20) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c:2308
#11 0xc05a5aed in ip_input (m=0xc3a6a300) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/ip_input.c:776
#12 0xc0582f13 in netisr_processqueue (ni=0xc0742498) at /usr/src/sys/net/netisr.c:233
#13 0xc058310a in swi_net (dummy=0x0) at /usr/src/sys/net/netisr.c:346
#14 0xc04ffa79 in ithread_loop (arg=0xc3481600) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_intr.c:547
#15 0xc04fed0c in fork_exit (callout=0xc04ff928 <ithread_loop>, arg=0xc3481600, frame=0xecb4bd38) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_fork.c:791
#16 0xc06816ec in fork_trampoline () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:209
(kgdb) 

Help? ;)

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Jamie Heckford
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