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On 10/19/2013 11:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> I'm having a bit of an issue here with a machine that's completely |
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> hanging and unresponsive. No magic sys request keys, keyboard and |
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> mouse are dead, cannot shell in or even ping from another machine on |
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> the network. For all intents and purposes it's a dead as one of |
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> Dexter's targets. I believe the problem is virtualbox-4.3 related. I |
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> didn't see it with vb-4.2.18 or any earlier version. However there |
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> were 3.10.16 & 17 updates, along with whatever else Gentoo has |
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> provided in the last week or two so there's a chance it could be |
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> anything, including hardware. |
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> |
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> Anyway, I've dropped back to gentoo-sources-3.10.15 which never |
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> exhibited a problem, along with vb-4.2.18. I'm running memtest86 and |
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> looking for anything it might spot. My RAID6 appears to have no |
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> problems through any of these hangs, or at least a scrub of the RAID |
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> doesn't show it. |
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> There's nothing in /var/log/messages or Xorg.0.log that I see. |
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> My question, after this long setup, is what can I do, if anything, |
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> to capture and other info about what's really causing the problem? |
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> I'm currently just doing obvious regression stuff. Installing old |
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> versions, running for awhile, etc., trying to figure out if it's a |
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> single package. Not real effective but maybe it's all I can do with |
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> this sort of problem? |
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> Thanks in advance, |
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> Mark |
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> |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3682124.html |
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check out netconsole -- it's fiddly to setup but essentially in the |
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dying breath it send dmesg entries over the network (LAN only) |
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it is really "last breath of death" - you need to add ip and mac address |
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and have netcat listening on the other end. |
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