From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 22 07:40:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13409 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (0@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA13245 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cy@cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.8/8.6.10) id HAA06815; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:39:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from cschuber.net.gov.bc.ca(142.31.240.113), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpdaabAAa; Sun Mar 22 07:39:22 1998 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.8.8/8.6.10) id HAA01522; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:39:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803221539.HAA01522@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpd001515; Sun Mar 22 07:38:38 1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: cy To: Gilad Rom cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Surprise Reboots In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Mar 1998 08:49:42 +0300." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 07:38:35 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 2.2.5-RELEASE had a couple of problems that exhibited themselves as VM problems that caused the system to panic occasionally. You can either upgrade to 2.2.6-BETA or email me and I will send you a 42K patch that fixes these and various other problems that I had, including a hack to fix a NULLFS panic (PR kern/5355). Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 UNIX Support OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER) ITSD BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET Government of BC Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca > I've got a new box, about two weeks ago, to replace my good ol' DX2/66. > This box is an Intel Pentium 200Mhz, has a 430TX Motherboard, 32MB on one > SDRAM chip, and an ESS Soundcard, a x20 IDE CDROM + 4.3GB EIDE Western > Digital Harddrive, and an ATI 3D Rage II. Ofcourse, the minutes I got it > I happily installed FreeBSD on it, from a 2.2.5-RELEASE CD I had burned a > couple of days before. Everything seemed to go fine, when suddenly the box > rebooted. I thought it had to be a power surge or something like that, so > I just carried on. (When I just got the machine it had a 166Mhz CPU in it) > On the past two weeks, the machine has rebooted on me on random times, > Without any warning. Once make buildworld completes, and another time it > simply reboots in the middle of the process. > Thinking it had to be a hardware problem, I have changed the SDRAM chip > and upgraded the CPU to a 200Mhz one. I have also cvsup'd to the latest > -STABLE sources since, and did a 'make world -j4' with the new chips. > it went fine. for the last couple of days, everything seems to be going > fine. Last night, I left my box on at night while downloading xemacs20. > guess what I found out when I got up in the morning? > > mount R/W of / failed - file system is not clean! fun fsck manually > ... > > which means the box had rebooted just like it did before. > I have no explanation for this, except I get kernel double faults > sometimes, right before the reboot. I'd tell ya what they say, except it > reboots right after that. > > Anyway - If someone has similar a similar problem - or similar hardware - > Id really like to know about it. > Thanks. > Gilad Rom. > > > #I know there are no monsters... Then why do they keep chasing me?? > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message