From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 11:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-241-155.elk.frontiernet.net [207.173.241.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE3C37B41F for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.248]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1949CEE5F2; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:31:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <004601c1db46$0fe9f8b0$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Vince Valenti" Cc: "Jonathan Arnold" , "Lord Raiden" , , "nate" References: <20020403094303.F8593-100000@kenny.blue-box.net> Subject: Re: sudden reboots Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:30:49 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vince Valenti" To: "Drew Tomlinson" Cc: "Jonathan Arnold" ; "Lord Raiden" ; ; "nate" 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