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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2005 09:29:25 +0200
From:      Eirik =?ISO-8859-1?B?2A==?=verby <ltning@anduin.net>
To:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mysterious hangs
Message-ID:  <BE8296F5.116AC%ltning@anduin.net>
In-Reply-To: <BE827A81.112C4%ltning@anduin.net>

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Sorry, this was meant for the amd64 list.
Got another report for this list. Confused the addresses.

On 13-04-05 07:28, "Eirik Øverby" <ltning@anduin.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For some time I've been seeing infrequent and seemingly random hangs on my
> dual opteron system. Motherboard is Tyan K8S Pro. Until now I thought it was a
> "hard" hang, but I've got serial console hooked up and BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER, DDB
> and KDB in the kernel, and when sending a break through telnet I get:
> 
> telnet> send brk 
> KDB: enter: Line break on console
> 
> And nothing more. Which means the box is sort of alive, but fails to present
> even the kernel debugger. The machine is currently on 5.4 as of yesterday.
> It's been hanging before (with anything from days to weeks between), under
> various variations of 5.x, but I haven't had the serial console before now.
> 
> Has any one seen this before? Any ideas what I could look at? I suspected
> hardware, but it seems that isn't the case as most HW errors I've seen would
> cause a total freeze.
> 
> Here's to hoping.
> 
> Thanks,
> /Eirik



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