From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 10:02:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3C9816A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:02:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from anduin.net (anduin.net [212.12.46.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6387543D31 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:02:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: from mailnull by anduin.net with dspam-scanned (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CKZja-000GpG-42 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:59:50 +0200 Received: from mailnull by anduin.net with spamassassin-scanned (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CKZjX-000Gp1-Lp for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:59:50 +0200 Received: from eirik.unicore.no ([213.225.74.166]) by anduin.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CKZjV-000Gor-OK; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:59:45 +0200 From: Eirik Oeverby To: Willem Jan Withagen In-Reply-To: <4177884C.7030503@withagen.nl> References: <1098341179.52186.7.camel@eirik.unicore.no> <4177884C.7030503@withagen.nl> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:03:21 +0200 Message-Id: <1098353001.52186.35.camel@eirik.unicore.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on anduin.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=7.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weirdness in RELENG_5 on amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:02:56 -0000 On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:58 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Eirik Oeverby wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > my dual Opteron server is experiencing strange problems; the same I've > > been seeing since I installed it back in May. After a bit of uptime > > (varies between 1-2 days and a month or two, depending on the kernel > > release I am running) it will start acting up (if I'm lucky) or simply > > panic. I have no panic message dump, since the box is very far away and > > last time it paniced I had no serial console. > > Sounds a little like the trouble I had with my dual opteron system when I was > still running it on an MSI board. The main problem here seems to be the VIA > chipset. This is a Tyan S2882 board - K8S Pro I believe, with an AMD chipset. > > You are not running this hardware, are you? Otherwise strongly I suggest > changing it. I swapped it for Tyan Tiger, and no more of these problems since. Well, they are still there ;) Built a new kernel today, as I see a number of issues were resolved in RC1, however I want to wait for the next crash - if/when it happens. It is possible I could get some useful info out of it. No clue about the serial console questions I had? /Eirik > > --WjW > > > > >