Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 21:45:38 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: plateful of crow (was Re: Frequent reboots...) Message-ID: <20031008114538.GB784@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200310061450.h96Eomsk018333@quarter.csl.sri.com> References: <20031004165932.94381.qmail@cally.queue.to> <200310061450.h96Eomsk018333@quarter.csl.sri.com>
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On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:50:48AM -0700, Fred Gilham wrote: >This is so weird. I went to the latest stable, which turned out to be >4.9 RC-something, and my system started hanging. Then when I went >back to 4.8 it kept on hanging. Turned out to be a disk going bad. > >Maybe 4.9 is haunted, maybe its daemon has gone rogue and started >eating hardware. :-) <MeToo>It ate a PCMCIA modem card in my laptop as well. The card was working perfectly until I installed 4.9-PRERELEASE and now it just hangs on boot :-(. I've also got a PCI multi-port serial card that stops the PSU turning on. That was working perfectly until I installed 4.9 - but I suspect something external killed it. Peter
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