Crash when upgrading since 11.0

[Bertram Scharpf]

Hi,

On Wednesday, 08. Feb 2017, 16:07:34 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Bertram Scharpf <lists at bertram-scharpf.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > since I upgraded to 11.0, when I do an overnight upgrade
> > the system crashes.
> >
> > Most times I still can ping the host but I can no longer
> > ssh into it. Once when I plugged a monitor into it I caught
> > it saying endlessly
> >
> >   swap-pager: indefinite wait buffer bufobj: 0 blkno: N size: 16384
> >
> > with two alternating values for N. I plugged in a USB
> > keyboard but could not enter anything.
> 
> Boot into single user mode and disable swap temporarily until you get it
> sorted out.

The crash happened even inside a "make package" (I do all
"make package"s after all "make "install"s inside a jail).
Therefore I deeply suspect the swap mechanism being involved
in the crash scenario. Disabling it probably would show up a
different error.

Bertram


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