From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 3 06:32:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15727 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 06:32:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.smlt.com (orion.smlt.com [195.153.190.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15722 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 06:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from quintin@smlt.com) Received: from localhost (quintin@localhost) by orion.smlt.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA05198; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:49:05 +0100 Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:49:04 +0100 (BST) From: Quintin Oliver Reply-To: Quintin Oliver To: Steve Friedrich cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: sysintall keeps dumping core :( In-Reply-To: <199809021603.MAA20663@laker.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:34:52 +0100 (BST), Quintin Oliver wrote: > > >I can change the memory in the machine, but I'm not sure why?? > > Because you want to troubleshoot the problem, and it's better to spend > your money on memory to troubleshoot it, rather than a dubious > diagnostic program. But you are, of course, free to ignore my advice > 8o) Ok, well, I have some spare memory lying around, I'll remove the current memory in the machine and replace it. I'll presume that you think that sysinstall is dumping core because of a hardware problem ? > If changing the memory doesn't fix it, i'd disable the onboard ide and > put in another ide card, hey they're cheap. > I looked at your dmesg output and I didn't see any interrupt conflicts. > Pretty standard stuff there... Right, I tried sysinstall again yesterday and it worked!! I installed a few packages and all was ok, a few minutes later I tried it again, and it dumped core :( I then left the machine for about 5 minutes, and it still dumped core but I was able to do a little more on sysinstall before it crashed again. Funny thing, Linux never had any problems with the machine, but many of times it did kick 'ide0: timeout' then followed by 'ide0: reset' I used to get this error about 10 times a day. Thanks for your help, Quintin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message