On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:59:27PM +0100, Bernhard Leiner wrote:
> > Björn Ketelaars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to run rtorrent-0.7.9 on snapshot. Unfortunately rtorrent
> > > crashes after sometime taking down the complete system.
> > >
> > > It is still possible to ping the machine. It is not possible to reach
> > > it by means of a serial console or by means of SSH.
> 
> I'm facing the same problems here. Right after upgrading to 4.2
> (and to libtorrent-0.11.4, rtorrent-0.7.4p0).
> 
> On 05/01/2008, viq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to track down the same thing too. Two questions: did you try
> > forcing the box to drop to ddb to see what's happening? I was advised
> > that ddb(4) and crash(8) man pages may be useful to get some
> > information out of it. Another, I was advised to try running "dd
> > if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null bs=64k" (or something similar) to read the
> > whole disk, and look in syslog for any disk errors. My disks show some
> > errors, so my bug hunting session is postponed until I rule out disk
> > problems (ie get a new disk...)
> 
> My disk looks ok.

How did you check it? Either all my disks are bad, or I am checking in
wrong way...

> I have a serial connection to the crashed box right now (a soekris
> net4801) but unfortunately all I can see is the frozen rtorrent
> client. No reactions on any key strokes. No traceback and I can't
> switch to ddb. An existing ssh connection accepted three more key
> strokes before freezing.

Try setting ddb.console=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and sending BREAK over
serial (in cu that would be ~#)
 
> I can still ping the machine, and NAT also still works (otherwise I
> couldn't write this mail ;-))
> No daemon running (sshd, dhcpd, smbd) accepts a new connection.
> 
> Sorry for this rather useless bug report... I will keep trying to get
> a traceback.
> 
> best regards,
>     bernhard

-- 
viq

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