From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 08:30:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490D737B401 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CE443FBD for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:30:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h2RGUpp18419; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:30:51 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Tuc , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:30:51 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200303271511.h2RFBKSl000593@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> In-Reply-To: <200303271511.h2RFBKSl000593@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303270830.51025.kstewart@owt.com> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-26.0 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1,RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: System instability (Revisited) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:31:02 -0000 On Thursday 27 March 2003 07:11 am, Tuc wrote: > Hi, > > I previously posted : > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >---------- Hi, > > Over the last month, my system has seemed very unstable. At > first I thought it was just the result of issues with X after the > system lost power mid install. Now it seems its just getting worse > and worse. I've cvsupd' up to yesterday morning. But I now see more > and more .core's being generated, and even saw : > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico: Shared object has > no run-tim e symbol table > > when I tried to get a uucp session going. I did get it one or > two other times on other programs. > > Where do I start? I'm getting frustrated enough to > re-install, but this only was installed 2 months ago. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------- > > Since then, I reformatted, and installed 4.8-RC2 and rebuilt > everything from the ground up (Ports wise, NOT system). > > That was 2 weeks ago, and since then not 1 X lockup, no unknown core > files, and *1* reboot (Suprisingly less than 24 hours after starting > SETI@HOME). I think you have hardware that is flaky. Seti uses 99+% of cpu and when you start anything else that is major, it is rebooting. I would suspect problems along the same lines as signal 11, i.e., heat or power related. I had a Celeron that would run for weeks but if I tried to build XFree86-libraries and run Seti, it would reboot. Eventuially, the heat got the cpu and the system completely died. Kent > > Could there have just been a bad file or something that just tripped > me up and it took a fresh install to clear it out? -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html