From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 09:15:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2679F16A41F for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:15:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from razor@ldc.ro) Received: from ldc.ro (ldc-gw.pub.ro [192.129.3.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE51A43D46 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:15:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from razor@ldc.ro) Received: (qmail 54431 invoked by uid 666); 14 Nov 2005 09:15:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:15:01 +0200 From: Alex Popa To: Timm Florian Gloger Message-ID: <20051114091501.GA21987@ldc.ro> Mail-Followup-To: Alex Popa , Timm Florian Gloger , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <43765248.9070906@web.de> <20051112205557.GA51054@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4377684A.6080001@web.de> <20051113170131.GB5233@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4377B525.5010405@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4377B525.5010405@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 freezes shortly after logging in (and at install) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:15:05 -0000 On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:50:29PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: > Hi list, > > I get some strange freezes with my fresh 6.0 installation. > > After booting for a several times now i got 2 more freezes in not > coherent periods of time after logging in. > > It is a complete freeze as far as i can explore, neither any keyboard > nor mouse input is noticed and keyboard "hangs" also (no numblock/ > shiftlock switching possible). > > I am able to access the fs through the other os so i checked the message > and other logfiles, but i cannot find any panic or other bad logentries. > > > Any ideas/ suggestions? > > (Will post this as a new thread) > Thanks a lot again > > Timm I have had similar problems with the install / running of FreeBSD 6.0. For me, the install would freeze at random points in unpacking the distributions (once catman, once some soures - ssys if I remember correctly). I suspected CD or ATA problems - checked the downloaded image against the MD5 and SHA256 signatures, was OK. Then re-read the physical CD into MD5, on two different CD-ROM units, and it seemed OK. Another lockup occured with sysinstall, at partitioning my FreeBSD slice, while simply trying to type backspace to delete the pre-set size and type something of my own as the partition size. Note that wasn't the first time I typed backspace, but after already deleting a few chars. All of the previous lockups were HARD - in textmode, on the primary console, no messages on screen, power button wouldn't work, NumLock wouldn't work. The solution (as suggested in the Undernet #FreeBSD channel) was to boot with ACPI disabled. The system works now with no problems (ACPI still disabled). 5.4 still works perfectly (including nvidia video card / ethernet from ports) with ACPI enabled. Hardware info: Motherboard Asus A7N8X, CPU: AMD Sempron 2800+, 1 GB RAM (dual channel). System runs fine under FreeBSD 5.4-stable (a of 2 weeks ago), and under Windows XP. At the time, the addon cards were an ed0 and a rl0 network cards (both PCI), and a SB Live! soundcard. The integrated soundcard was disabled in the BIOS, the integrated network card (nve0) was enabled. Video card: NVidia GeForce FX 5700LE. PS: I have booted the 6.0 install CD with verbose logging, but still nothing was printed on screen at the time of lockup. Hope this helps Alex [PS: If required, I can add dmesg from both 5.4-STABLE and 6.0-RELEASE, but I'm not sure I still have the original kernel on disk for 6.0] ------------+------------------------------------------------------- Alex Popa, | "Computer science is no more about computers than razor@ldc.ro| astronomy is about telescopes" -- E. W. Dijkstra ------------+-------------------------------------------------------