[indiana-discuss] System freeze in snv_106

[Chris Ridd]

On 4 Feb 2009, at 18:38, Sean Sprague wrote:

> Chris
>
>> I did an image-update to build 106 today, and about an hour after   
>> rebooting - using Thunderbird, rdesktop, and a single gnome- 
>> terminal -  my x64 box froze solid. Mouse locked, keyboard capslock  
>> light stopped  working, gnome clock stopped. I should have, but  
>> didn't test ssh  access :-(
>>
>> I've rebooted successfully, but there's nothing in /var/log/ 
>> messages  to indicate a problem.
>>
>> Is there anywhere else I can look at?
>>
>
> Try fmdump -eV but I doubt that this will be very useful.

Nothing in there except errors from when I was playing around with a  
file-backed raidz zpool.

> You could also try setting the deadman timer with "set snooping=1"  
> in /etc/system and rebooting.

I'll give that a go, thanks Sean. Is there any documentation  
describing what that does?

Hopefully it was all just a transient glitch or something...

Cheers,

Chris