Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:03:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "T.S. Waterman" <waterman@cs.brandeis.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: waterman@berry.cs.brandeis.edu (T.S. Waterman) Subject: random system hang -- FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELASE Message-ID: <199808272203.SAA14411@rasp.cs.brandeis.edu>
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I installed 2.2.7-RELEASE at the beginning of August. I like it -- it's great. BUT, I've been having random system crashes since the installation. This isn't good, since I'm actually trying to get some work done here. Anybody have a clue or seen behavior like this? Are there any known hardware problems that might be causing this? symptoms: system hangs. No panic. No core dump. completely unresponsive to keyboard, mouse, network, etc. If the disk (IDE) was selected, it stays selected (r/w/ light stays on). Uptimes generally ~3-6 hours (seems to be getting shorter) with min=1hour, max=6 days (of heavy use, even) It seems (completely subjectively) to happen during high IP traffic and high disk-traffic times. but don't trust this observation:) Generally, everything is fine on reboot, but it once died in the middle of vipw, leaving me a mangled pwd database. That was fun. Attempted solutions: Re-seat the processor & memory :) Didn't help. Rebuilt the kernel a few times, trying to remove all unused devices and options. No noticable effect. Removed all but the video card, and all the associated device drivers. No effect. Adding the DDB option to the kernel didn't ever break me out to the debugger, either. I'm working on scrounging the cables for a serial console, but I doubt this will give me any more information. I'm also planning on going to 2.2-STABLE, which may have some bugs ironed out (but I can't figure out how to get a report of mods/updates between dates or releases, even. The www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi queries can only get me this stuff for individual files. Can't I get CVS commit messages for a whole sub-tree?) The machine passes all startup hardware & memory tests, for what that's worth. Machine configuration: OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE M/B: ASUS P2L97 (440LX chipset) (w/ the lates BIOS version) PII 300MHz 128Mb 10ns sdram IBM 8.4G IDE hard drive (FreeBSD on slice 2, 6Gb) generic S3-Virge video Soundblaster AWE64 Rockwell Kflex 56K modem 3Com 900 ethernet Thanks for any info you might have. -- --ts waterman@cs.brandeis.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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