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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 00:22:38 -0700
From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com>
To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Machines going bump in the night.
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On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 07:34:04AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 12:50:06AM +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.
> > > 
> > > 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" ?
> > > 
> > > 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 ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, please do. It seems you have accidentally enabled the HCF option in
> > your kernel config. Don't do that. 
> 
> Daniel Ortmann <ortmann@sparc.isl.net> was closest to identifying the 
> *real* problem.  I had a some typos in my configuration file:
> 
> options IPFIREALL
> #options SAFETY
> options NO_SCSI_SENSE
> 
> I couldn't find any docs on the "HCF" option :-(
> 

'Halt and Catch Fire' See http://www.nmsmn.com/~cservin/jargon/h/hcf.html

This needs to be moved to Chat.


Josef

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