Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:49:22 -0800 (PST) From: Vince Valenti <vince@blue-box.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, nate <freebsd@aphroland.org> Subject: Re: sudden reboots Message-ID: <20020403094303.F8593-100000@kenny.blue-box.net> In-Reply-To: <002701c1db24$d77ca3e0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote: DT> ----- Original Message ----- DT> From: "Lord Raiden" <raiden23@netzero.net> DT> To: "Vince Valenti" <vince@blue-box.net>; "Jonathan Arnold" DT> <jdarnold@buddydog.org> DT> Cc: "Vince Valenti" <vince@bendcable.com>; DT> <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; ""nate"" <freebsd@aphroland.org> DT> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:40 AM DT> Subject: Re: sudden reboots DT> DT> DT> > Well in actuality I've got a number of machines running 4.5 and DT> > without a flaw. I've even got an old P120 running as a mail server, ftp DT> > server, and web server all in one happy little package without a hitch or a DT> > glitch. I did notice that there was a couple of big flaws in the most DT> > recent releases of sysinstall, but that's about it. Usually if you're DT> > hitting issues with your server rebooting at random, it's usually hardware DT> > related. Try swapping some stuff out till you get a stable running DT> > machine. I had a similar issue a while back with 4.3 on one of our mail DT> > servers. It ends up I had to swap out the ISA nic cards for PCI and it DT> > played happily afterwords. DT> DT> While I agree with your statements in general, it sure is odd that a DT> small group of us all experienced problems soon after upgrading to DT> 4.5-RELEASE and had not had such problems before. When I get some DT> time (US income taxes are due), I will revert to 4.4-RELEASE and see DT> if the problems disappear. I will certainly post my results here. Drew, I agree with you. I think something has changed in 4.5-RELEASE that causes it to be incompatable with certain hardware. I am running 4.5-RELEASE on six other machines with no problems so far. I've downgraded my problem machine to 4.4-RELEASE to see if it fixes the problems. Before I upgraded it to 4.5-RELEASE, I never had a problem with it, and it had an uptime of several months. -- Vince Valenti Systems Administrator BendNet - Rosenet - Rio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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