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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:01:18 +0100 (CET)
From:      Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>
To:        "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Spontaneous reboots
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902091656080.3742-100000@gold.amis.net>
In-Reply-To: <005901be5438$778ccad0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>

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On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> My FreeBSD-Stable-3.0 machine has been spontaneously rebooting every few

Actually I'm seeing the same on my machine (was 3.0-STABLE and is now
4.0-CURRENT) for quite some time now, but it is not so often. More like
twice a week.

> into the release.  Here is my hardware configuration if it matters:
> 
>     486 DX4 - 100MHz
>     20 MB Memory
>     220MB Hard-Drive
>     325MB Hard-Drive
>     2 - Linksys Ethernet ISA Cards (new)

My configuration:

AMD 5x86
64MB memory
Compex NE2000-compatible ethernet card (unused)
Teles S0/16.3 ISDN card
Adaptec 2940

> I suspect the issue is with the driver for the Linksys cards (ed0), as it

I actually don't use my NE2000 compatible card, but I do have it
configured in my kernel.

> would sometimes reboot as soon as I made a connection to the box via telnet
> or ssh, other times it would reboot when transfering alot of data across the
> network or from the Internet.

Actually I'm seeing the same, but my network connection is through the
ISDN card. I was suspecting the problem to be in isdn4bsd, but now this
got me thinking.

I usually see the problem when I just connected to the internet and my
mail starts flowing in (I use UUCP over TCP) and I start a SSH session at
the same time (so I get a lot of network _and_ disk traffic).

I was trying to debug this, but it is really hard, because I'm always
working under X and I don't see anything on the console and don't get a
kernel crash dump at all.

One of these days I'll borrow a terminal and make the serial port the
console.

But for now, I don't have the slightest idea on how to go about debugging
this.

Blaz Zupan, blaz@medinet.si, http://home.amis.net/blaz
Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia


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