From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 11:49:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999C437B6E1 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:49:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from free.fr (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA60056; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:49:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@free.fr) Message-ID: <3A65F735.3AA6175C@free.fr> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:49:09 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to do if a box is just "frozen" References: <20010117160547.C98607@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG False alarm : a reinstall of a fresh 4.2-R from a CD-ROM cured everything (I thought I was careful when upgrading via make world ;-)) Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:01:15 +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > >I've got a little application at work which can "just freeze" a > >4.2-Release : the purpose of the application is just a packet blaster > >used for telecom equipement test (send as many UDP packets as ordered, > >on as many interfaces as there are on a machine). [SNIP] > > Can you send an NMI to the box? (NMI can usually be generated by > pulling I/0 channel check on the ISA bus low. I/0 channel check is > pin A1 (and there's a convenient ground on pin B1). ([AB]1 is the > pins closest to the rear of the machine). NMI should trap to DDB. thanks for the tip > > Peter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message cheers -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message