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@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@erwin ~ % uname -a
> FreeBSD erwin.number6 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 9 16:34:34
> EST 2003 root@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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