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Date:      Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:05:01 -0400
From:      Chris Carr <carrch@mac.com>
To:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 9.0-RC1 crash on G5 (late 2005)
Message-ID:  <34592F6F-4FA6-419C-B989-F003762D9F96@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111029225703.63b8c4b4@narn.knownspace>
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Does the G5 boot up and run Mac OS X without locking up?
I've seen intermittent freezes/hangs caused by hardware failures  
(particularly the graphics card.)

On Oct 29, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:28:13 -0500
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 10/27/11 20:26, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>>> I don't know the conditions of the crash, but sometime after
>>> booting, can happen right away, or later, my G5 just stops.  No
>>> kernel panic, no messages, it just stops.  The red light in the
>>> case comes on, and it just sits there.
>>>
>>> Hardware:  Late 2005 model G5, Dual-core 2.0GHz, 4GB RAM.
>>>
>>> Anything else I can provide, just ask.  Can't provide a coredump,
>>> dmesg, or anything else like that, though (machine just dies).
>>>
>>
>> Is this a 32 or a 64-bit kernel? I have the same model, with a 64-bit
>> kernel, as my primary desktop, and have never seen anything like  
>> this.
>> -Nathan
>
> Hey Nathan,
>
> I just tried -BETA1, 64-bit, on the machine, and it locked the same
> way.  Anything that I can do?
>
> - Justin
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