Disc lock up on 8.0-STABLE

[kama]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Pete French wrote:

> > Same here!
>
> I am wondering what happens if I disable the automatic run,
> then wait until 3am and run by hand... possibly its something
> to do with the data it is having to work on at 3am ?
>
> > But the box has been running 8-STABLE since around end of August, and
> > the first time it happened was about 10-14 days ago, after i upgraded
> > world+kernel.
>
> Ah, so theres a version of 8 before which it doesnt do it ? Now that
> is interesting! I am running 8.-STABLE, but possibly if I go
> back to 8.0-RELEASE then I might not see this ?

Ehm... what happens if you just run daily by hand?

# /usr/sbin/periodic daily

Then you can at least have a chance to monitor what it does... (instead of
being awake at 03.00)

/Bjorn