Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:55:02 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Mikkel_Sk=C3=A6rris?= <trinitor@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD freezing at random Message-ID: <00b30fcef4a16717b0f8229ea010a070@localhost> In-Reply-To: <33469ba20803310035w2f03f9bh448a37199e9aa28b@mail.gmail.com> References: <33469ba20803310035w2f03f9bh448a37199e9aa28b@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi there, On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:35:51 +0200, "Mikkel Skærris" <trinitor@gmail.com> wrote: > My system is a IBM T40 laptop, and i has been running FreeBSD for more > than two years without ANY problems at all. But a couple of days ago The most obvious one would be "bad hardware". > my 7.0 intallation began freezing at random, without any log messages > or anything. Same thing happens on a fresh installation of 6.3. Often > the screen flickers, and blacks out, as if the screen conection was > loose or something, but it isnt. And I cant seem to pinpoint the > problem, to any certain area. Though the windows installtion (dual > boot) works completely fine. > When you say it "freezes" is the machine still ping'able from another machine in your network? You could start a script like "vmstat 1 >> /tmp/vmstat.log" or similar which runs all the time to get one of the latest log entries. /var/log/messages is really empty when your box freezes? Is X running while this is happening? regards, Marian
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