From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 9 08:57:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08731 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08722 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:57:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id KAA27298; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:56:31 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id KAA27294; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:56:30 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <017d01be544d$32240930$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Blaz Zupan" Cc: "FreeBSD-Stable" Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:56:52 -0600 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 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It sounds to me like the problem resides in the ed0 (NE2000) driver. I have two cards in my machine running NATD, both of which use this driver. That probably accentuates the problem for me. My development box uses de0, and I don't see this problem ever (PII-333). Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: Blaz Zupan To: Thomas T. Veldhouse Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 10:05 AM Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots >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. > >My configuration: > >AMD 5x86 >64MB memory >Compex NE2000-compatible ethernet card (unused) >Teles S0/16.3 ISDN card >Adaptec 2940 > >I actually don't use my NE2000 compatible card, but I do have it >configured in my kernel. > >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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message