From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 23 5:36:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CCAA37B400; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 05:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perimeter.co.za (obelix.perimeter.co.za [209.212.102.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6D743EA3; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 05:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@perimeter.co.za) Received: from PATRICK (gateway.mip.co.za [209.212.102.245]) (AUTH: LOGIN bsd@perimeter.co.za) by perimeter.co.za with esmtp; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:35:48 +0200 Message-ID: <048d01c24aa1$d3d4e490$b50d030a@PATRICK> From: "Patrick O'Reilly" To: ivan_alb@agava.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" References: <028401c24a95$dbacc270$b50d030a@PATRICK> <3D6619B0.3080708@agava.com> <036401c24a99$db5c5bb0$b50d030a@PATRICK> <3D66258F.7080506@agava.com> <044301c24a9f$6627e020$b50d030a@PATRICK> <3D662930.5020900@agava.com> Subject: Re: Kernel Panic = System crash 8 times in 4 days Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:37:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Ivan Albetkov" > > BUT: This server had about 40 days uptime without any problems > > while it was on 4.6.1. Then, since Sunday when I did make > > world to 4.6.2, it started to crash regularly. Is this really > > a hardware problem? > Don't think so :) > In that case did you try to make world to something like > 4.6-STABLE? May be this should help. No - not yet. When I posted this to -questions earlier in the week, I said: > Right now I am considering either reverting to 4.6.1, or > 4.6-STABLE which was suggested by Byron Schlemmer. And Greg Lehey responded: > The best choice would be 4.6-STABLE. But better still would be > to find out what's going on, rather than trying to work around > in the dark. I agree with Greg's reasoning, so I've been hanging in there hoping in my own newbie way to contribute to refining FreeBSD. :) But, I cannot keep running on such an unstable platform for long, so I will probably need to go to 4.6-STABLE in the quest for stability unless something concrete emerges quite soon :( Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. ___ _ __ / _ )__ __ (_)_ __ ___ _/ /____ __ / __/ -_) _) / ~ ) -_), ,-/ -_) _) /_/ \__/_//_/_/~/_/\__/ \__/\__/_/ http://www.perimeter.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message