Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-25 Thread Volker Werth
On 05/25/07 11:07, Volker wrote: ... I'm using the following additional kernel options: makeoptions DEBUG=-g options KDB options KDB_UNATTENDED options KDB_TRACE options DDB options WITNESS options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN options INVARIANTS

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-25 Thread Volker
Kris, Roger all, On 05/23/07 23:58, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:31:32PM +0100, Volker wrote: talking to myself... ;) On 2007-05-23 10:27, Volker wrote: Unfortunately three hours later, the machine died completely. It has been a hardware failure which came quietly. Sorry

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-25 Thread Volker
Using a debug kernel, the machine came up quickly with this LOR after the reboot: lock order reversal: 1st 0xc077078c tcp (tcp) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c:625 2nd 0xc4f18180 pf task mtx (pf task mtx) @ /usr/src/sys/modules/pf/../../contrib/pf/net/pf.c:6386 KDB: stack backtrace:

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-25 Thread Roger Miranda - Digital Relay Inc.
On Friday 25 May 2007 04:07, Volker wrote: Kris, Roger all, well, we replaced the broken machine (totally different hardware), took one of the mirrored hard disks into this replacement machine and took this replacement into production. Unfortunately it took less than 16 hours for this

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-25 Thread Volker
On 05/25/07 15:01, Roger Miranda - Digital Relay Inc. wrote: ... Volker Kris, Sorry for kind of hi-jacking your thread. Just hopefully we all can work together to fix this issue (if there is one). For me, that's ok as it may (or may not) be a similar problem. Out machine did goto in to a

LORs (was Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R)

2007-05-25 Thread Volker
On 05/25/07 13:45, Volker wrote: Using a debug kernel, the machine came up quickly with this LOR after the reboot: lock order reversal: 1st 0xc077078c tcp (tcp) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c:625 2nd 0xc4f18180 pf task mtx (pf task mtx) @

Re: LORs (was Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R)

2007-05-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:17:02PM +0200, Volker wrote: My assumption: The LORs are somewhat pf related but are not related to the lockdown of the system. Am I correct? No, they could be the cause. Make sure you have read the BUGS section of pf.conf, and if this is not relevant to your

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-25 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Volker wrote: Using a debug kernel, the machine came up quickly with this LOR after the reboot: lock order reversal: 1st 0xc077078c tcp (tcp) @ /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c:625 2nd 0xc4f18180 pf task mtx (pf task mtx) @

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roger Miranda wrote: Volker wrote: [...] I've attached the latest dmesg, can you see any similarities (as it still might be a hardware issue)? [...] Our current version is: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 Looks like you are also using the EM network adapter driver.

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-23 Thread Volker
On 05/23/07 09:17, Oliver Fromme wrote: Roger Miranda wrote: Volker wrote: [...] I've attached the latest dmesg, can you see any similarities (as it still might be a hardware issue)? [...] Our current version is: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0 Looks like you are

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-23 Thread Roger Miranda
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 14:03, Kris Kennaway wrote: What happens if you enable INVARIANTS and/or WITNESS? I have enabled WITNESS, I have no experienced a freeze yet. But i did notice on boot an WITNESS message for if_bridge. See attached. Could this be causing the freeze? softdep_waitidle:

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-23 Thread Volker
talking to myself... ;) On 2007-05-23 10:27, Volker wrote: Currently I'm watching this machine over the distance and waiting for the freeze... ...and the machine freeze came this afternoon. I've had a good dump of the network traffic and haven't seen any strange network traffic.

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:31:32PM +0100, Volker wrote: talking to myself... ;) On 2007-05-23 10:27, Volker wrote: Currently I'm watching this machine over the distance and waiting for the freeze... ...and the machine freeze came this afternoon. I've had a good dump of the network

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:57:59PM -0500, Roger Miranda wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 14:03, Kris Kennaway wrote: What happens if you enable INVARIANTS and/or WITNESS? I have enabled WITNESS, I have no experienced a freeze yet. But i did notice on boot an WITNESS message for

ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Volker
Hi! Starting yesterday I'm experiencing machine freezes on a 6.2-R system (remote to me). The strange thing: It occurs twice a day, in the morning hours (both freezes are within 1-2 hours) and for the rest of the day everything runs fine. The machine does not respond anymore (no net, no

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Ivan Voras
Volker wrote: My first thought is a hardware problem but why does it occur that less and only in the morning? My next thought is a DoS attack (CVE-2007-0244?) but can that lead into a machine freeze? When in the morning? If it's around 3-4 am, that's when the (often hardware intensive)

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Volker
On 05/22/07 17:18, Ivan Voras wrote: Volker wrote: My first thought is a hardware problem but why does it occur that less and only in the morning? My next thought is a DoS attack (CVE-2007-0244?) but can that lead into a machine freeze? When in the morning? If it's around 3-4 am, that's when

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Roger Miranda
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:15, Volker wrote: Hi! Starting yesterday I'm experiencing machine freezes on a 6.2-R system (remote to me). The strange thing: It occurs twice a day, in the morning hours (both freezes are within 1-2 hours) and for the rest of the day everything runs fine. The

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Volker
On 05/22/07 18:24, Roger Miranda wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:15, Volker wrote: Hi! Starting yesterday I'm experiencing machine freezes on a 6.2-R system (remote to me). The strange thing: It occurs twice a day, in the morning hours (both freezes are within 1-2 hours) and for the rest of

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 22.05.2007, 17:53 +0200 schrieb Volker: On 05/22/07 17:18, Ivan Voras wrote: Volker wrote: My first thought is a hardware problem but why does it occur that less and only in the morning? My next thought is a DoS attack (CVE-2007-0244?) but can that lead into a machine

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Roger Miranda
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:41, Volker wrote: There's nothing of interest in the logs (I suspect it's too late to have any daemon write something to syslogd as the system is then dead). As I also think, this is somehow related to network traffic, I'll try to monitor it's traffic starting

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 12:24:36PM -0500, Roger Miranda wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:41, Volker wrote: There's nothing of interest in the logs (I suspect it's too late to have any daemon write something to syslogd as the system is then dead). As I also think, this is somehow related to

Re: ghosthunting: machine freeze 6.2R

2007-05-22 Thread Roger Miranda
What happens if you enable INVARIANTS and/or WITNESS? Thanks Kris. I am going to compile that into the kernel right now. Well keep the list posted on any issues. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list