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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:51:29 -0600
From:      Krzysztof Parzyszek <kristof@swissmail.org>
To:        matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 9.1 freezes randomly on G5
Message-ID:  <50F80FF1.8020603@swissmail.org>
In-Reply-To: <50F607AD.3080201@swissmail.org>
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On 1/15/2013 7:51 PM, Krzysztof Parzyszek wrote:
> On 1/15/2013 7:41 PM, matt wrote:
>>
>> Replace PRAM battery, reset SMU, do a thermal recalibration via ASD.
>> Every time the SMU crashes it starts eating battery...usually a few days
>> before it's spent (although it may still read a reasonab le voltage).
>
> Ok, I'll try that.

Update.

I replaced the PRAM battery and I got the same symptoms.  As a next 
step, I pressed the SMU reset on the motherboard, and reset the PRAM 
(Alt-Option-P-R) at boot.  From that time on, things seem to work.  I 
successfully built my own kernel.  I left it overnight to build world. 
The ramdisk I created for /usr/obj was too small, so the build failed, 
but there were no hangs.  The machine was still up and running in the 
morning.

Thanks again!

-Krzysztof




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