From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 10:35:56 2004 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 0569116A4CE for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 10:35:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CB743D41 for ; Fri, 28 May 2004 10:35:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA2A69A71; Fri, 28 May 2004 13:35:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <40B77869.7080702@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:35:37 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Downes References: <40B77019.9020108@lineone.net> In-Reply-To: <40B77019.9020108@lineone.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: buildworld actually crashed 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: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:35:56 -0000 Robert Downes wrote: > During buildworld, I wandered off. When I returned, my machine was, > alarmingly, in single user mode, demanding that I run fsck manually. > > I'm running fsck right now, and it's finding all sorts of block size > errors, to which I'm simply hitting 'y' and agreeing that things should > be salvaged and corrected. > > Before running fsck, I had a look at the buildworld.out script that was > being written to during the buildworld process. I can't tell you exactly > what it says, but it definitely came to a stop in the middle of a > 'sentence' of output. I.e. it looks like my new machine (yeah, the > soon-to-be-fanless EPIA again) must have crashed during buildworld. > > What could cause buildworld to crash like that? I'm now worried that my > PSU board *was* damaged the other day. Is a damaged PSU the most likely > cause of this incident? > > All advice very welcome. Not enough information here to be sure, but it sure sounds like a hardware problem. You might do well to try memtest86 and cpuburn on that machine for a while, to see if you can track down a hardware problem. Monitor the temperature of the machine while doing so, could be that the cooling is inadequate. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com