From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 1 19:56:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA09343 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (mail-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA09338 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA18506; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 19:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709020256.TAA18506@mail.san.rr.com> Received: from dt5h1n61.san.rr.com(204.210.31.97) by mail via smap (V2.0) id xma018421; Mon, 1 Sep 97 19:56:04 -0700 From: "Studded" To: "Brian Somers" , "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" Cc: "Dave Dooley" Date: Mon, 01 Sep 97 19:56:01 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Machines going bump in the night. Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:50:06 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >I'm sitting here at 00:45, when suddenly one of my machines (actually >on loan from a friend) exploded - while running FreeBSD-2.1.7. If I had a dime for every time that has happened to me.... >I got no core dump, and despite "options DDB" in my kernel config, it >did not drop into the debugger. Now the machine doesn't seem to boot >any more. Has any one else experienced this ? > >Should I report this with "send-pr" ? No.. this list is fine. >There were at least 15 small explosions along with a series of >impressive flashes - kinda like disappointing fireworks, and there's >a nasty smell of sulphur in the room now. Should I post my kernel >config file ? By all means. I imagine that you have accidentally enabled the 'panic_initiates_pyrotechnics' option in your kernel. Please recompile *without* that option, and let us know how it goes. Good luck, Doug Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"