Re: fsck and dump freeze freebsd. any ideas?

2009-07-29 Thread DA Forsyth
On 29 Jul 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 269, Issue 6: After one of the last crashes, the system would lock up a short time after rebooting. I found the problem caused by background fsck locking up the system. I took the partition

fsck and dump freeze freebsd. any ideas?

2009-07-29 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
The smartctl tests on the three drives came back saying they were checked 100% without error; bad sectors have always caused an error and an aborted scan at the point of trouble for me in the past. I 'thought' I recalled seeing a panic along the lines of ffs_free or something related to

fsck and dump freeze freebsd. any ideas?

2009-07-28 Thread Edward Sanford Sutton, III
After one of the last crashes, the system would lock up a short time after rebooting. I found the problem caused by background fsck locking up the system. I took the partition out of the startup check for now. I 'think' I was installing a port during the last crash, but it has been a while.

Re: fsck and dump freeze freebsd. any ideas?

2009-07-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:07:13 -0700, Edward Sanford Sutton, III mirror...@cox.net wrote: As a final question, is there any safe way to crash freebsd (or pull system power) without a risk of filesystem corruption? An easy way is to go into single user mode and umount all the partitions, then

Re: fsck and dump freeze freebsd. any ideas?

2009-07-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:07:13 -0700, Edward Sanford Sutton, III mirror...@cox.net wrote: As a final question, is there any safe way to crash freebsd (or pull system power) without a risk of filesystem corruption? An