From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 9:49:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kenny.blue-box.net (kenny.blue-box.net [204.245.221.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F74237B400 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:49:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by kenny.blue-box.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/BBMX) with ESMTP id g33HnMs08795; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:49:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@blue-box.net) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:49:22 -0800 (PST) From: Vince Valenti To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: Jonathan Arnold , Lord Raiden , , nate Subject: Re: sudden reboots In-Reply-To: <002701c1db24$d77ca3e0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> Message-ID: <20020403094303.F8593-100000@kenny.blue-box.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote: DT> ----- Original Message ----- DT> From: "Lord Raiden" DT> To: "Vince Valenti" ; "Jonathan Arnold" DT> DT> Cc: "Vince Valenti" ; DT> ; ""nate"" 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