From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 16 13:10:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.clarkson.edu (mail.clarkson.edu [128.153.4.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D237137BE5A for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 13:10:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tuinstra@clarkson.edu) Received: (qmail 8284 invoked by uid 0); 16 May 2000 19:39:25 -0000 Received: from sc-1-51.sc.clarkson.edu (HELO clarkson.edu) (128.153.23.148) by mail.clarkson.edu with SMTP; 16 May 2000 19:39:25 -0000 Message-ID: <3921A3EE.E4464CA3@clarkson.edu> Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:39:26 -0400 From: Dwight Tuinstra X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: occasional reboots References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bosko Milekic wrote: > > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Dwight Tuinstra wrote: > > > Pardon the "me too", but ... me too. With high frequency, > > I get a spontaneous reboot when trying to "make buildworld" > > after a fresh install of 4.0-RELEASE. Subsequent buildworlds > > dump core on either signal 10 or signal 11. A plain "make" > > will sometimes succeed, sometimes coredump with sig 10 or 11. > > The coredumps seem to happen at random locations in the build. > > Sounds like hardware trouble. > > Key words: random, SIGBUS I was afraid (but half expecting) someone would say that. Does anyone have any suggestions about figuring out the cause? Any suggestions on what (Award) BIOS options to set for maximum stability? Is it possible/probable that one of the option cards is to blame? (Zoom telephonics IDE modem and ATI Rage II Pro Turbo in one machine; de0 NIC and ATI Rage IIC in the other.) Could it be caused by having a swap file too large? Hmmm. come to think of it, the single successful build- world I've done came after I disconnected the (ATAPI) CD-ROM on my network-connected machine at work. I'll try disconnecting the CD-ROM on the home machine tonight and see what happens (may be 3-5 days before I can report back; I'll be out of action for a while). Hopefully I'll soon have a different mobo/CPU combo to try it on as well. Any other suggestions appreciated. --Dwight Tuinstra tuinstra@clarkson.edu tuinstra@northnet.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message