Consistent 6.0-STABLE Hang.

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 14 02:22:11 PST 2005


On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Julien Gabel wrote:

>>> Running the Citrix ICA wfcmgr (from ports) to change settings, e.g.
>>> password, for connection to a Windows terminal server hangs FreeBSD 6.0
>>> (as of Nov 4) quite consistently. I've tried this on one of my 6.0
>>> systems at home and a 6.0 system here at work. I suspect it may have
>>> something to do with Linux emulation however until I dig into this more
>>> I won't know for sure.
>>>
>>> The only way to "unhang" the system is to press the reset switch.
>
>> For fun, try updating to RELENG_6. I committed a fix recently for a 
>> hang thats caused by doing 'ls /dev' in the linuxulator.
>
> I think you got it.  After rebooting under a fresh 6.0-STABLE (build on 
> Mon Nov 14 05:39:01 CET 2005), the problem didn't appear again...  no 
> more need for a serial console on this machine, i think :)

Sounds like a good MFC candidate, assuming it can be MFC'd 
non-disruptively.

Robert N M Watson


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