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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 hangs Date: 16 Mar 1997 13:21:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5ggs4s$6ut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5g3c9t$bmj@xpress.inforis.nnov.su> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37147 tim@xpress.inforis.nnov.su (Tim Kutergin) wrote: > My old 486DX with 16Mb of RAM and 1.2 GB HD under FreeBSD 2.1 serves > as cache server (running Squid 1.1.5). From time to time machine hangs in > strange way: processes running (machine pings OK, http cache is running) > but any attempt to start new process fails (I think exec..() locks up). > On console when I just press Enter new "Login:" appears. But if I enter > login name, console hangs (getty execs login isn't it ?). What can I do > with it ? This usually indicates a filesystem lockup. You don't perchance have any NFS filesystems mounted in /? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)