odd crash on -STABLE box

[Bernd Walter]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 09:19:38AM +1000, Rob Byrnes wrote:
> I checked by Alpha this morning after it's been running fine for a while 
> and saw this on the terminal (hand transposed):
> 
> Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin getty[2087] : getty : retreiving gettytab entry 
> 'default': Device not configured
> Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin getty[2087] : getty : retreiving gettytab entry 'Pc': 
> Device not configured
> Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin getty[2087] : getty : retreiving gettytab entry 'Pc': 
> Device not configured
> Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin tc setattr /dev/ttyv1: Operation not supported
> Jun 14 08:54:55 erwin init: getty repeating too quickly on /dev/ttyv1, 
> sleeping 30 secs

Sounds like some gettys can't read their config.

> Tried to halt the box nicely, this error popped up:
> 
> [root at erwin] /: halt
> 	spec_getpages : [#da/0] I/O read failure: (error 6) bp 
> 	0xfffffe0004a53b70 vp 0xfffffe000b683ec0
> 		size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, valid: 0x0
> 		nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 0
> /sbin/halt: Input/output error

Sound like a read error - without naming the aktual error.

> So I had to hard reset the box.  It came back OK after a fsck, nothing in 
> the logs at all
> 
> root at erwin ~ % uname -a
> FreeBSD erwin.number6 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Mon Jun  9 16:34:34 
> EST 2003     root at erwin.number6:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ERWIN  alpha
> 
> Any clues as to what went awry?

I would guess that your / drive temporarily failed, but it's hard to
say why.
You should check cabeling - especially whatch out for loose power
connectors.

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