From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 22 10:25:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA03894 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03886 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:24:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from darkstar.connect.com (uranus-44.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.79.107]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.8.8) id MAA16259; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:24:56 -0600 (CST) Received: (from fpawlak@localhost) by darkstar.connect.com (8.9.0.Beta3/8.8.8) id MAA10574; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:25:12 -0600 (CST) From: Frank Pawlak Message-Id: <199803221825.MAA10574@darkstar.connect.com> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:25:11 -0600 (CST) To: techie@tantivy.stanford.edu Cc: admin@www.megido.inter.net.il, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: Surprise Reboots In-Reply-To: <199803220846.AAA09868@tantivy.stanford.edu> X-Mailer: Ishmail 1.3.2-971023-FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk I am running 2.2.6-BETA and I experienced a spontaneous reboot. It was more like a hard reset than a reboot and the video went all to hell, appeared to CGA or something like that. I shutdown the computer and checked that all the boards were seated properly and restarted the computer and it worked fine. It was just a single instance -- go figure. It has benn three days now without any problems. Cheers, Frank Bob Vaughan wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message