From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 30 12:26:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AF637B41B for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:26:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 454D73FD; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:26:23 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:26:23 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: NWA Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sudden FreeBSD Death Syndrome, SFDS Message-ID: <20011230202623.A8696@tao.org.uk> References: <20011230201001.B7332@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17pEHd4RhPHOinZp" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from allen@cis.ohio-state.edu on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:20:30PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:20:30PM -0500, NWA wrote: > Joe- >=20 > Yes, I am completely open to all possibilities of its cause, and believe > me, SFDS was simply for dramatic effect. >=20 > I can say that this has occurred on two different hard drives of seperate > manufacture on this machine. Also, the same has not occurred on this > machine when it ran other OS's including Win 98, Win 2000, and several Li= nux > distributions. Beyond those two observations I have little else to go on. >=20 > What components of the hardware might you suggest as the cause? Motherboard or memory. It has been noted before that FreeBSD has been known to drive the hardware a little harder that some other operating systems. The best bet is to compile a kernel with debug options switched on and then try and catch a kernel panic when the machine reboots. This should give an indication of what is going wrong. Take a look in the FreeBSD handbook for details of how to do this. Joe --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwveG4ACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZyUACgu5iZhQE7vTFnXwRZjRprhysY RzcAoKi8T0pK5obaOPCy9LdalQAnyIob =7eaX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message