Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:04:41 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Henry Ammons <henryammons@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittant freezing problems Message-ID: <20010308120441.C2029@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010308173543.70330.qmail@web5409.mail.yahoo.com>; from henryammons@yahoo.com on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:35:43AM -0800 References: <20010308173543.70330.qmail@web5409.mail.yahoo.com>
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First things first... before stating that something is broken, update your sources and rebuild. cvsup the entire src tree, then prepare yourself for the long haul of rebuilding your system. It ought to take about two hours, I put a total of 1.5 hours on my PIII-733 with 320M RAM. When you rebuild the kernel, remove anything you don't absolutely need. Check the daemons, remove anything you don't need running. Do you leave XFree86 running all the time? It isn't known to be the most stable program (in fact, compared to your base system, XFree86 is a piece of shit), and might be causing lockups. When I go to bed, I log out. Check the logs for various daemons, maybe one of them did something very bad. If it still locks up, then it's experiment time. Start disabling daemons, one by one, until you are confident the one you've disabled isn't causing the problem. Restart it, and move on to the next one. Also, start taking out non-critical features of the kernel. I know, for instance, that my hardware's APM is buggy, and when I build a kernel with APM support, it locks at boot time. I also know that when I build smbus support in the kernel to monitor motherboard statistics, it boots fine and recognizes smb devices, but when I run healthd or lmmon, my kernel panics. On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:35:43AM -0800, Henry Ammons wrote: > I have run into some trouble recently, though, and was > wondering if anyone might have suggestions. The > system seems to freeze with no messages or error logs > once or twice a day. When it freezes, the hd activity > light illuminates and stays lit. Pre-BSD I did not > experience any troubles with the exact same hardware. > I'm wondering if it is a hardware probe that is > causing my troubles or possibly my bios settings. > > The system: > AMD 600 Athlon > ABIT MB > 256 MB Ram > (2) Maxtor Drives IDE (on one channel, one master, one > slave) > (2) Linksys ethernet cards, only one in use with > static ip, the other is not configured > No X > FreeBSD 4.2, sshd, sendmail, apache > > I appreciate your help with this. It was frozen this > morning, but did have the standard two Charlie Root > emails, so it was running until at least 2am. > > Thank you, > Henry -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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