Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:12:31 -0800 From: Karol Mroz <kmroz@cs.ubc.ca> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose? Message-ID: <472F954F.1010509@cs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <472F7BE9.8080807@polands.org> References: <472F7BE9.8080807@polands.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having frequent problems with BETA1 and now BETA2 "freezing". > There is no diagnostic information, nothing in /var/log/messages, > nothing, just a hung interface. I cannot ssh into the machine and it > appears the box ceases to communicate on SSH. A couple of times I've had > screen corruption on the laptop's LCD display. > > Every time it hands I'm running Xorg 7.3, Thunderbird, Firefox, pidgin, > and a bunch of xterms. > > Is there something I can do to diagnose this issue? > I'm curious if these problems arose with 7.0? Did you run 6.2 on this machine prior to 7.0? I had similar problems with a desktop of mine that was running 6.2. Every now and then (sometimes days in between) it would freeze in X, corrupt the screen, or at times would just reboot. There was no warning and nothing of worth in any log files. I had a feeling it might have been my video card, so after taxing it really hard with gl apps and noticing artifacts on the screen, I replaced the card. The system ran well for a few weeks, but the problems persisted. Thought at this point it could be faulty ram, so ran each half-gig stick on it's own until the next failure. Both sticks showed failures. So then I moved the sticks out of slots 1,2 and into 3,4... that was 4 months ago and all is well. I guess what I'm aiming at here is that this could be a hardware issue which can be a pain to diagnose. - -- Karol Mroz kmroz@cs.ubc.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHL5Qyuoug78g/Mz8RAkEzAJ9yzGU1in5lrS3fUO0mfHfzCuYiqQCfRSn3 EkJrTLktOyfNddasgJPA4V8= =tbgK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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