From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 5 18:45: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (ipl-229-034.npt-sdsl.stargate.net [208.223.229.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B42E37B67D for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:44:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from shazam (shazam [192.168.5.3]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA07640 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 02:44:45 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:45:10 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Durham X-Sender: durham@shazam.int To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2 Problem possibly I/O related Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Due to the nature of this problem, I can't do any tracing. I have noticed several times since upgrading to 4.2-RELEASE that the system will just "freeze". When this happens, you can still ping the IP of the machine on the local network, but you cannot get a telnet or ftp connection. You can not switch from X to a virtual terminal. The mouse pointer is non-responsive. The NUMLOCK key on the keyboard is non-responsive. However, something is still alive, as you can ping it. The only way out is a reboot. This is definitely "Un-FreeBSD-Like" behavior! I have been running FreeBSD for about 3 years on this machine, a P200MMX with 64 megs RAM and Tyan motherboard. The only clue I have is that I was attaching a 1.5 meg file in Netscape mail. I have also had this happen on certain web pages. Not ofter, but once or twice in a couple months. The other time I have had this happen was when writing to a bad floppy disk (bad sectors) using mtools. The file attachment caused a lot of disk activity and perhaps, given the floppy's causing the same of similar problem, this is I/O related? Just a wild guess. This could, of course, be a hardware problem that is creeping up, or a problem in XFree86 (I've never seen this in a virtual terminal). Anyone else seen this kind of behavior? I'm fairly certain that 4.1 did not do this. Does anyone have a suggestion for getting some useful information from the system. There is no crase, per se, so no crash dump. -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message