Matthew Dillon wrote:
:cache block thing is the only thing showing up in dmesg when processes :start hanging.I dont see any disk hangs (no wchan's are in the bio subsystem). You may have found a namecache deadlock but I can't track it down without a kernel core and it sounds like you need physical access to do one safely, unless you have a remote power cycler on the box too.
What you could try, however, is to write the contents of /dev/mem to a file. If that succeeds, maybe there are chances that we can construct a more-or-less-working kernel core. Remote access running kgdb might be a better solution (i.e. let Matt login and run kgdb on the live system). So maybe try this (huge result): dd if=/dev/mem of=filename bs=1M cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ Work - Mac +++ space for low €€€ NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \
