From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 7 16:47:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from strategywon.com (strategywon.com [216.22.209.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA6614CD1 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 16:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brianb@strategywon.com) Received: from localhost (brianb@localhost) by strategywon.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA14772; Fri, 7 May 1999 19:48:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brianb@strategywon.com) Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 19:48:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Bell To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Infrequent but nasty problem In-Reply-To: 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 On Thu, 6 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Brian Bell wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > My 3.1 FreeBSD system has run well for some time but this morning I sat > > down to my machine and it had crashed during the night. I saw that it had > > run fsck fine. I logged in and got xwindows running with no problems > > until I tried to run one of the programs that the machine was running at > > the crash (rc5 proj). Instant crash of the whole system. Rebooted and > > deleted the rc5 program and tried to run my other program (make of > > java1.1.7) Crashed my whole system. Rebooted again and fsck was starting > > to find lots of problems. Kicked out of the boot and said to run fsck > > manually. I did and it fixed some block problems. Went into xwindows and > > tried to run netscape. Crash out of xwindows. Tried to restart xwindows > > and crashed the whole system. When I rebooted some times i get a huge > > crash right after boot up with the error of the pager. So I am now > > booting kernel.old and running fcsk to find out what is crapping things > > out. It keeps just saying disk dirty rerun fsck. I have done that now 6 > > times. What do I need to do to start stabilizing my system? I am afraid > > to start anything do to it might just hose my system and that would hurt:) > > Let me know what more details you want. thnxs > > if this was the first time something like this has happened and > you can't seem to keep the box alive for more than a few minutes > and random things "just die" you most likely hve some sort of > burned out hardware. > > perhaps it's your CPU fan, a drive gone flakey or a loose connection. > > this is the only thing i can think of that would cause such a > change in your system stability. > > -Alfred > > Thanks Everybody, You were right. I had a hd controller die on me. Today I went and put in a amd 350 with a brand new mother board and dimm memory. Things are running great. Thanks again :) From the desk of Brian Bell System Admin for Strategywon.com Contact me at brianb@strategywon.com or (602) 231-0918 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message