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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!sundog.tiac.net!millenium.tiac.net!not-for-mail From: pete@millenium.tiac.net (Pete Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 2.0-RELEASE Disk Wait Hang? Date: 1 Jun 1995 01:04:44 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3qj3nc$b07@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: millenium.tiac.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 941109BETA PL0] I have a FreeBSD machine running 2.0-RELEASE. The machine stopped accepting telnet connections and had many processes stuck in "D" (under ps -auxw) disk wait mode. What would cause the normal system programs (i.e. pagedaemon) to get stuck in this mode and never come out? Is this a known problem in 2.0 RELEASE that has since been fixed, has anybody had this happen to them? The machine allowed you to telnet and then after you entered your username and password just sat there. You could see syslog messages and stuff but the shell would put itself into Disk Wait mode and not work. All the drives appeared to be functioning. The machine had to be rebooted to work properly again. Please send any replies to pete@tiac.net. Thanks, -Pete Davis -- ========================================================================= Peter Davis - Sr. Systems & Network Engineer <pete@tiac.net> The Internet Access Company PO Box 1098 Bedford MA 617-276-7200 Mail info@tiac.net for a list of access-points! =========================================================================