From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 22 00:47:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03224 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:47:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tantivy.stanford.edu (techie@tantivy.Stanford.EDU [36.55.0.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA03199 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:47:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from techie@tantivy.stanford.edu) Received: (from techie@localhost) by tantivy.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) id AAA09868; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:46:32 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Vaughan Message-Id: <199803220846.AAA09868@tantivy.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: Surprise Reboots To: admin@www.megido.inter.net.il (Gilad Rom) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:46:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Gilad Rom at "Mar 22, 98 08:49:42 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I have also experienced a lot of spontaneous reboots and freezes.. sometimes the machine will do a full reboot, and at other times, it just freezes up, and does not respond (except to ping..). this is with a p5-200 on a IWill P55TV motherboard (built-in adaptech 2940au) 64mb ram, 3c905, sb16, another 2940, and a svga card.. hp6020 on the onboard 2940 (ahc0), and 4 disks and another cdrom on the other 2940 (ahc1) currently running 2.2-stable from 980320, but the problem has appeared numerous times since upgrading to 2.2-stable late last year.. I also have a 486dx2-66 running 2.2-stable of 980223, which has not showed the same problem (but is also not used as much.. mostly as a ppp router..) both of these systems are on a UPS, and local utility power has been stable. I leave them up 24x7. NFS is used to export a few filesystems from the pentium to the 486, but not the other way around. most of the reboots have happened during a buildworld, or when a buildworld was left running went I went to bed (and woke up to unclean filesystems) I thought this might be a hardware problem, but i'm not sure.. I have not changed the hardware since this problem first appeared, and the machine was very stable under 2.2.5-release. I cvsup every day or so, and buildworld, if this is successful, then I installworld, build a kernel, and reboot.. if I have to restart buildworld, then I usually cvsup again before doing so.. (possibly unrelated, but I have been able to crash XF86331 on this machine as well, by opening 2 windows with /usr/ucb/mail running, and closing them at the same time.. haven't yet tried it with XF86332..) > 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 > -- -- Welcome My Son, Welcome To The Machine -- Bob Vaughan | techie@w6yx.stanford.edu | kc6sxc@w6yx.ampr.org | techie@t.stanford.edu | KC6SXC@W6YX.#NCA.CA.USA.NOAM | P.O. Box 9792, Stanford, Ca 94309-9792 -- I am Me, I am only Me, And no one else is Me, What could be simpler? -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message