From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 31 20:14:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27592106568F for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:14:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: from smtp101.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (smtp101.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.13.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE58E8FC1C for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:14:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26207 invoked from network); 31 Jan 2010 20:14:17 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Reply-To:Organization:X-Mailer:Face:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=I3ZCNCZAD/ezmJYD73mYfcEj1ulTn9htMNl/i/5KX/F9ZzGjW6skv0AWs7iBBYHzzds10wrt9niv8YFFem7GCxHwWzvazVqvWgKVvjUpggxHW3pt7BHDSi4LLF5p0idz9SSSCHKy8KVBiu4GCA7tST22EOG9cPU6raovXcz8w3Q= ; Received: from c-67-189-160-65.hsd1.ny.comcast.net (gesbbb@67.189.160.65 with login) by smtp101.prem.mail.ac4.yahoo.com with SMTP; 31 Jan 2010 12:14:17 -0800 PST X-Yahoo-SMTP: yeAAMgKswBATCul4lSbCWspvTA-- X-YMail-OSG: DGCAe0gVM1mHYK5Io4hEzvzLBKDnZFjlyvcbqc7Juf2W9wa16klk0zbHSOGiReprIzJXiVSnjP.R8u7GAisPbMJp.8yNc7TatSN0DaxWJ.3kj35Lk1ZZJq2dUvUnnuJtV7toOsBzDxPHdR9cRt9c3hFl9h2pO5wq.pGuPxDObeOrFLY2iE_7bZ2AH4.dhnlsIVl2gC2WXUXlnT7XRuXM9wAx2o5jlphq3OPWRPtm8nMs2VaQntsicnxEokY3s54z.wsXSRAcqMrkmj2zqdFkQn.i5X.vIACUzumgpUmH5emFM.BvIpCiDRuMww-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (scorpio.seibercom.net [192.168.1.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: gesbbb@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BBCB22846 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:14:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:14:16 -0500 From: Jerry To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100131151416.3717c325@scorpio.seibercom.net> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4 (GTK+ 2.18.6; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Face: 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 X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: System Crash + Firefox-3.5.7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:14:19 -0000 I have been experiencing one or two system crashes a day for over a week now. For no apparent reason, when starting Firefox, the system will freeze for approximately 10 seconds or so, then reboot. This does not happen every-time. It seems to happen maybe every third or forth time, although that is not a proven fact. The /var/crash directory is starting to fill up with crash files -- bounds, vmcore.x info.x and I have no idea what to do with them. Can I just delete them or is there somebody who investigates these spontaneous crashes/reboots. This is happening on a FreeBSD-7.2 machine. -- Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | Dibble's First Law of Sociology: Some do, some don't.