From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 15:52:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EA8106564A for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:52:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F2E8FC30 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:52:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nino80@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so1423371rvb.43 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:52:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=WNUiO/6OHrppw27xj43ERn4bOOcmEOlt2z6FmnCbEYY=; b=ggXjZBGM4cTSzTe3gB0DVG7ya1YpzKd8Q5PFVdpbIj2KGiZKRa+gu2siHgxsTyZG5wEOi7kWcsxdtBWVyJvDpslO3/Us2fzeMi0Btq6pLSa8QrVUoRSka/wqYsEBZyX5vr2zxm0my+Kq0lmzUV6R3oCBJMMFuij+Mk7uS9zLgSo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PZ30uSYZwGSVw+CF7B+gBXnC5Sb3XaJsFdVA5YhZu9OlbexCeaoY97hYDeSuc7rhWMCFctWUD/mQi1MFDhYcVCC4mWVWrN0r9ATL5wTLdfz3cAo8f70vIABjbqz5/gyvedSdpQ61YzgpasL09hWtGzXTHM1hv/J+V4pLEMM8Bt0= Received: by 10.141.74.17 with SMTP id b17mr4398388rvl.234.1207065175735; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.28.10 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <92bcbda50804010852s20e5d681y9d2d2a4cd9e9adea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:52:55 +0200 From: "n j" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <002e01c893fd$2bb5e8d0$3202a8c0@glattwerk.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <92bcbda50804010613p3cd927e4g4a3c3c7820a6a06e@mail.gmail.com> <002e01c893fd$2bb5e8d0$3202a8c0@glattwerk.local> Subject: Re: FreeBSD crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:52:56 -0000 > I hope someone can help me. I have started to experience > seemingly random crashes causing FreeBSD to shutdown and > power off the machine. The only trace I can find as far as > the reason for the crash is concerned are the following > excerpts from /var/log/messages: > > Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: <<22>N>NMIMN NIMIMII IISISSSAAA > A 20,22 200E,0,I, S EIEEASI ISAAS f Aff ff > Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: f > Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: > Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: f< > Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: 2<>2> > Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: f > Mar 23 11:52:36 myhostname kernel: > Mar 23 11:52:47 myhostname syslogd: exiting on signal 15 > Mar 23 13:04:32 myhostname syslogd: kernel boot file is > /boot/kernel/kernel Small update: I have received some feedback that this seemingly random junk is related to ipfw (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=116458). However, I have also received information that this junk might not be completely random and could be, in fact, related to NMI (non-maskable interrupt) which would suggest hardware error. Any thoughts on this? -- Nino