Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:30:49 -0800 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Vince Valenti" <vince@blue-box.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: <004601c1db46$0fe9f8b0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <20020403094303.F8593-100000@kenny.blue-box.net>
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----- Original Message ----- 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> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:49 AM Subject: Re: sudden reboots > 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. Please keep me posted regarding how your problem machine does on 4.4-RELEASE. If it solves your problems then I will *DEFINITELY* return to 4.4 myself. I also have another machine that's doing fine on 4.5 so I'm going to leave it alone. My problem machine has run flawlessly since I first installed FBSD with 4.0 and have ugraded to all the releases along the way. I did not have a lick of trouble until I upgraded to 4.5. Thanks for your updates, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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