From owner-freebsd-isdn Tue Nov 30 14:31:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isdn@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E926E14CFF for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 14:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de (s4m218.dialup.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.8.218]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/8) with ESMTP id XAA04671 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:31:10 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <38444FEE.977FC696@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:30:06 +0100 From: Gerald Heinig Organization: Institute of Computer Science in Mech. Eng., Aachen Technical University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Black tuesday :-( Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isdn@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, I regret to announce what I believe may be my first *ever* crash of FreeBSD (3.3 RELEASE at the moment), or at least as far as I remember. A few details: I had netscape iconified (Navigator and Messenger) and I´m in the habit of ifconfig´ing my interface (sync PPPoISDN) down after fetching mail or whatever. I know, I don´t really need to, but it´s a habit :-) The only things that are out of the ordinary this time are a) I made my ifconfig setuid root (I have no security concerns here) to spare me the su every time (yes, I know, lazy bum...). I´ve had it this way for maybe a month or two, and I fetch mail at least twice a day. b) I normally exit Netscape after reading mail/whatever, as opposed to iconifying it this time. I ifconfig´ed up isp0, did a fetchmail and got the BIOS message. In other words: fetchmail... 3 seconds...blank screen...BIOS startup message. No message at all from the kernel. My suspicion is with the hardware, since if the kernel gets its knickers in a twist, it should at least say something. I can´t imagine the stuff with Netscape and ifconfig having anything to do with this either, but I´ve included it for completeness. My hardware is a AVM Fritz! ISA card which has given me *flawless* performance thus far. Any comments on this? Also, I´d like a few tips on how to go about preparing for a repeat. I assume this bug (if indeed it is a bug!) is *very* rare, since, give or take a protocol message or two in earlier versions, I haven´t heard so much as a squeak from my setup for several months. Cheers Gerald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message