From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 11:35:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10CA16A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:35:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E5D43FAF for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9HIZBLg024023; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:35:11 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20031010124744.V66490@carver.gumbysoft.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:35:09 -0400 To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ), Doug White From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" ; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Seeing system-lockups on recent current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:35:16 -0000 At 11:52 PM +0200 10/10/03, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >Doug White writes: >> On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating > > > time with my freebsd-current/i386 system. It is a dual > > > Athlon system. [...] > > > It would be useful to isolate exactly what day the problem > > started occuring. > >I experienced similar problems on a dual Athlon system (MSI K7D >Master-L motherboard, AMD 760MPX chipset, dual Athlon MP 2200+) >which is barely a couple of months old. I ended up reverting >to RELENG_5_1. >With -CURRENT, both UP and SMP kernels will crash with symptoms >which suggest hardware trouble. With RELENG_5_1, UP is rock >solid (knock on wood) while SMP crashes within minutes of booting. Just to follow up on this... My symptoms were different, in that I have problems with both UP and SMP (although UP did seem more stable). I also tried a clean install of 5.1-RELEASE (right off the CD's), and that would also hang up. Since I *know* this machine had been running fine back at the time of 5.1-release, this was pretty significant. I took the PC back to the place I got it from, and they ran some kind of diagnostics on it and said the motherboard is bad. They're replacing the motherboard. So, unless I have something more to say when I get that back, it looks pretty likely that my headaches were hardware-related. (my machine also has a different components than des's machine) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn =3D gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu