Timeout Error - Help Determining the Cause

[NASbox]

I got the following output from the nightly security run.

Can anyone give me some hints for troubleshooting (if any is warranted)
and/or let me know if this message is likely an indication of a pending
serious hardware problem/failure?

Code:

freenas.YFG security run output

Checking for uids of 0:
root 0

Checking for passwordless accounts:

Checking login.conf permissions:

Checking for ports with mismatched checksums:

freenas.YFG kernel log messages:
+++ /tmp/security.yhiiKxAq	2012-09-10 03:01:01.000000000 -0400
+ahcich2: Timeout on slot 17 port 0
+ahcich2: is 00000000 cs 00020000 ss 00000000 rs 00020000 tfd c0 serr 00000000

freenas.YFG login failures:

freenas.YFG refused connections:

-- End of security output --

Based on the timing I suspect it was caused when my nightly CRON job ran

Code:

#! /bin/bash
savepath='/mnt/TANK/.diskdiag/'               # Save Path for Files including trailing /
dt=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`                    # Date/Time is tempfile name / Base of final file name
for i in $(sysctl -n kern.disks | awk '{for (i=NF; i!=0 ; i--) if (match($i, '/ada/')) print $i }')
do
  fn=$savepath$dt$id                          # Temp file for smartctl output
  smartctl -a  /dev/$i >$fn
  nfn=`awk '/Device Model/{DevModel=$3;} /Serial Number/{SerNum=$3}; /Firmware Version/{FWVer=$3} END { print "~" DevModel "~" SerNum "~" FWVer; }' <$fn`
  nfn="$fn~$i$nfn"                            # Make new name including device/model/serial/firmware version
  mv $fn $nfn
done

I saw a similar message on June 21

Code:

Subject: freenas.YFG security run output

Checking for uids of 0:
root 0

Checking for passwordless accounts:

Checking login.conf permissions:

Checking for ports with mismatched checksums:

freenas.YFG kernel log messages:
+++ /tmp/security.p0UpeBca	2012-06-21 03:01:01.000000000 -0400
+ahcich2: Timeout on slot 1 port 0
+ahcich2: is 00000000 cs 00000002 ss 00000000 rs 00000002 tfd c0 serr 00000=
000

freenas.YFG login failures:

freenas.YFG refused connections:

-- End of security output --

Both errors occurred at 3:01AM (the cron job is scheduled for 3:00).

I am running the following version of FreeNAS

Code:

FreeNAS Build	FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-p2-x64 (11367)
Platform	Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G620 @ 2.60GHz
Memory	16281MB
OS Version	FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p7

Thanks in advance for any input.

 

[cyberjock]

Why not upgrade to 8.0.4p3 or 8.2? You DO know that there is a security vulnerability that was fixed in 8.0.4p3. Anyone running 8.0.4p2 or earlier is potentially at risk. Besides that, you may find your problem is fixed by upgrading....

I see alot of threads of people with weird issues that are often solved by simply upgrading. One of the first things I do is start looking for upgrades when I have a problem. Sometimes I even go to the nightly builds just to see if it's been fixed recently.

 

[paleoN]

Did you ever upgrade to the latest 8.0.4? There were a number of bugfixes. No idea if any of them were driver/cam related though.

Try running:

Code:

smartctl -a /dev/ada0
...
smartctl -a /dev/ada3

Against all of your disks one after the other.