From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 22:33:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7838016A41A for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 22:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmroz@cs.ubc.ca) Received: from smtp.cs.ubc.ca (smtp.cs.ubc.ca [142.103.6.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518AB13C48A for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 22:33:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kmroz@cs.ubc.ca) Received: from [198.162.52.23] (pugwash2.cs.ubc.ca [198.162.52.23]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.ubc.ca (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id lA5MCvWd011433 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:12:58 -0800 Message-ID: <472F954F.1010509@cs.ubc.ca> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:12:31 -0800 From: Karol Mroz User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071023) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <472F7BE9.8080807@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <472F7BE9.8080807@polands.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 7.0-BETA1 & 2 occasionally freezing, how to diagnose? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:33:17 -0000 -----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-----