Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:15:36 +1000 From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> To: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> Cc: obiwan@zeppelin.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bde@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.0-19970209-SNAP to -current Message-ID: <199704241115.VAA06027@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Apr 1997 04:15:37 EST." <199704240915.EAA02306@main.gbdata.com>
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> > I've been trying to reproduce the problem on the other machines, > > but be damned if I can even see a pattern. It is a very uncomplicated > > system P166/32mb RAM, 2 large EIDE drives, no X, just ppp dialin lines > > with a digiboard card. Anyone else wish to exchange notes? > > > > Does this machine reboot alot? I guess "alot" is somewhat subjective, but rebooting spontaneously for any reason is a lot in my books! :-) But around once at least every 3 days it'll just reboot, and some days are worse than others. No message, no (apparent) panic. As I've already mentioned, though, I don't have DDB enabled on that system, but even if I did it may not do any good. > I'm reboot mine at will simply by dropping > pppd or killing it. Ouch. I don't *think* it is as simple as that. This machine varies between 7500 - 9200 minites of user dialin time per day, 99% of connections being pppd. If the problem was pppd dropping, then it'd be a lot more frequently! Then again... I did notice only yesterday that when one machine that was connected via a standard sio device hung up, the machine rebooted pretty much at that same instant, although this is the only time I've noticed the coincidence. Activity on the digiboard ports don't seem to be involved, and that's where all of the dialin customers call in. Activity on the standard serial ports is relatively infrequent. Might it be an sio problem? If this is possible, then I might revert to an earlier version of the sio driver and see if I can work out what's going on. -- David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/
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