From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 9 10:29:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zigman.2y.net (korpen-86-203.ip-pluggen.com [212.181.86.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9F837B419 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 10:29:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by zigman.2y.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 587221EC1; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:29:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:29:09 +0100 From: Morsal Roudbay To: Richard Nyberg Cc: Samuel Tardieu , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Kristian K. Nielsen" Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver Message-ID: <20011209182909.GA3410@zigman.2y.net> Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay References: <20011205204045.GA7485@zigman.2y.net> <2001-12-07-10-59-13+trackit+sam@inf.enst.fr> <20011207120822.A19038@gromit.it.su.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011207120822.A19038@gromit.it.su.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3 [up 15:19, 1 user, load averages: 0.10, 0.06, 0.02] X-Return-Path: morsal@swipnet.se Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I use soft-updates too. Same thing goes for me, no panic... just shutdown. On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:08:22PM +0100, Richard Nyberg wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > > I am experiencing the same crashes on my new machine (ATA100 IDE drive): they > > appeared when I noticed that I had forgotten to use soft-updates. After > > I have turned them on, I experienced the first crash in 15 minutes. Then I > > get one every two days, when doing heavy disk IOs. I got a crash 10 minutes > > ago when the machine was unattended though (and not doing important disk > > IOs), and could see a "panic" message on the console. Unfortunately, I hadn't > > enough free space in /var/crash to save the kernel. > > > > Do you people use soft-updates? From my experience on this problem, I assume > > that either soft-updates or the ATA driver may be causing those spontanous > > reboots. > > Yes I use soft-updates. The peculiar thing aboout my crash though is that > there was no panic; the machine just froze and the screen went blank, so > maybe I was hit by a different problem. > > -Richard > > 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