Re: Armv7 unresponsive with flashing disk light

Mark Millard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Apr 25, 2025, at 16:12, Robert Clausecker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 02:46:58PM -0700 schrieb bob prohaska:
>> A Pi2 running -current armv7 got stuck again during buildworld.
>> No debugger escape was possible, despite repeated tries. Power
>> cycle was followed by a normal boot.
>> 
>> This time, the usb hard disk activity LED was pulsing steadily,
>> roughly 3-5 Hz. That's new. Formerly all stoppages had no disk
>> activity indications.
> 
> That could be the kernel dumping itself.  Did it eventually stop?

Per that note: you (Bob) may want to let the light blink
until its stops (or it has been a very long time) if such
happens again in the future. Then you might have a crash
dump to get information from once you do boot again.

(This presumes you have things configured to have crash
dumps enabled.)

>> Thanks for reading,
>> 
>> bob prohaska
> 
> Yours,
> robert Clausecker
> 


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