From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 10:37:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D1616A4D3 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:37:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from vorpal.math.drexel.edu (vorpal.math.drexel.edu [129.25.6.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE56F43D2F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Received: from drexel.edu (vorpal.math.drexel.edu [129.25.6.250]) i1MIbh6f072068 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:37:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Message-ID: <4038F6F7.5050000@drexel.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:37:43 -0500 From: Justin Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040204 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: This has to be a bug... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 18:37:45 -0000 > >What video hardware are you using? I have a Geforce4 using the >nvidia driver and got used to crashes while starting games. Once the >game is up however I can't remember that I ever had a crash. It's difficult >to make a guess how frequently this happens, but since installing the >UT2004 demo (about a week ago) I had only one crash while starting the demo. >I have no idea how to reproduce these crashes :-(. > > >> time after a fresh install of it), it corrupts the file system in a way >> that requires one to manually run fsck. The first time I used the >> America's Army, even the manual fsck couldn't fix the fs corruption: >> there was a message "unrecoverable softupdates error". I was able to >> mount the partition, back up my data, rebuild the file system, and >> restore the data. Good point! I'm using a GEForce 2 card with the Nvidia driver. The only other time I got crashes like this was when I tried to run graphic-intensive applications under CURRENT (with debugging code turned on). So the nvidia driver might be responsible. Thank you! (I'll just have to close all the windows when running this...)