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From: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:04:28 -0500
To: Dwight Tuinstra <tuinstra@clarkson.edu>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: occasional reboots
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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 02:58:17PM -0400, Dwight Tuinstra wrote:

> Pardon the "me too", but ... me too.  With high frequency, I get a
> spontaneous reboot when trying to "make buildworld" after a fresh
> install of 4.0-RELEASE.  Subsequent buildworlds dump core on either
> signal 10 or signal 11.  A plain "make" will sometimes succeed,
> sometimes coredump with sig 10 or 11.  The coredumps seem to happen at
> random locations in the build.

I experienced this problem before and it turned out to be a bad
motherboard. I do not know what hardware testing resources you have
available to you but you should have your memory and CPU tested
independent of the motherboard to try to pinpoint exactly which
components are bad.

-- 
Glenn Johnson


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