From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 05:16:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3217216A400 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD27813C458 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:16:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so1754009nfc for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:16:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NflDfqsr6ZQ7VreKgAJQmNN4f5FB1M3qKRZXXojkS321ABybPaEeag0rc0Bya+RupZh9aA6wHVYj5hsW3zFjBYjWZIJJzF2DrzwNNl75Nirv/9sRFvwqE4Ovwclyg0BMaHNdLVgRg7Yb9w/foTBpnpWXBYp5NoengYNxVa3f/48= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=lnxwS5shn7RgY6tRmKMRyO41AuYygxaHQ1DLQrCeoPh6aNafPiAT7tYoXH1cFgHEZNPsRyDb4+AL8mCoZXQeZDiSQOepElUUng3fpgQYd0CaTBj39XyLdR3zHmRV+nHfloF25T8U2s7Nh1Q2EOFouPr84TV6iF6U8n9CVbwB0Gg= Received: by 10.82.114.3 with SMTP id m3mr7471494buc.1173676582291; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.176.4 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:16:22 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Brian J. Conway" In-Reply-To: <20070311221556.2d41802a.bconway@clue4all.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070310105759.6980f90e.bconway@clue4all.net> <20070311221556.2d41802a.bconway@clue4all.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:16:24 -0000 On 11/03/07, Brian J. Conway wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:57:59 -0500 > "Brian J. Conway" wrote: > > > > I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I > > > disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not > > > related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. > > > > Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but I am using ACPI now where I > > was not on 4.x. I'll give that a try next time it happens. I would > > have hoped the motherboard would be up to par (Intel D845GVSR with the > > latest BIOS - > > http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D845GVSR/index.htm), but maybe > > not. Thanks. > > > > (Sorry for the bad threading, I'm off list and copying off the web > > archive.) > > > > Brian J. Conway > > No luck, got the first timeout shortly (25 min) after boot without ACPI, > again while mostly idle and I'm not able to repeat it more than once a day > or so: > > Mar 12 01:49:19 imogen kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout > Mar 12 01:49:19 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to DOWN > Mar 12 01:49:21 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to UP > > Any other ideas? Original post, for reference: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/144227.html My first suspicion was that your NIC is dying. I had those basic symptoms some years ago and within a few days was suffering unintended reboots from kernel panics. Replacing the NIC solved it. -- --