From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 18 21:50: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACA937BBB9; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from joshpaet (hutch-121.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.21]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id XAA02838; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:50:01 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Eric Kozowski" , "John Baldwin" , Subject: RE: 4.0-R install problem Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:52:03 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20000618155253.B2421@schooner.svjava.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Eric Kozowski > Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 5:53 PM > To: John Baldwin; Josh Paetzel; FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: 4.0-R install problem > > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:36:19PM -0700, Eric Kozowski wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 07:51:32PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > > It could be a problem where the stack is getting > > > corrupted somehow, causing the loader to return into lala land and > > > start executing randomly until it hits a fault. This could either > > > be a hardware problem or a nasty, subtle bug. Please try out > > > different memory and/or CPU to see if it fixes it. > > > > i don't have another cpu or sdram dimm to try. i'll try a > > reinstall and see if that makes a difference. > > yep, a reinstall fixed the problem. strange.... > Well that's good. I am sure there is some kind of problem there, but with all of the changes made to 4.0 from 3.4 it would be difficult to say what it could be. 4.0 is the only version of FBSD that has done this to me, and I've been using it since 2.1.5. Glad that you have it working. Josh > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message