From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 6:29:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isua4.iastate.edu (isua4.iastate.edu [129.186.1.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F36DF1559E for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 06:29:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graphix@iastate.edu) Received: from localhost (graphix@localhost) by isua4.iastate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA13067; Tue, 4 May 1999 08:29:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905041329.IAA13067@isua4.iastate.edu> To: Pat Lynch Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What has happened to FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 May 1999 07:53:19 EDT." Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 08:29:33 CDT From: Kent Vander Velden Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Pat Lynch w rites: >What are the kinds of things you are doing when it crashes, what version >of FreeBSD are you running? can't help unless we know a few basics ;) The machine is running a 3.1-STABLE kernel from March 21 and typically is running programs that are analyzing a large set of files. Softupdates are enabled on all partitions except / and the system is all ELF. During the switch from -CURRENT to 3.1-STABLE earlier this year I was not able to boot the system but with some tinker I got it back up. The system is now in a worse state. After installing the new bootblock yesterday I see no sign of FreeBSD before the machine reboots. Just for clarification, there are two main problems: 1) The machine is no longer able to be booted after the installation of new bootblock `disklabel -B da0`. 2) The machine is unstable but when it crashes does not drop to ddb or dump a core image. Of course the first problem is the most critical at the moment :) Thanks. --- Kent Vander Velden kent@iastate.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message