Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 02:54:01 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error during boot-up Message-ID: <20111001025401.73645710@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20110928154437.60eb7864@scorpio> References: <20110928154437.60eb7864@scorpio>
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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:44:37 -0400 Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: > From time to time when booting up or rebooting on of my FreeBSD-8.2 > amd 64 machines, the following error message is displayed ad > infinitum: > > nfe0: discard frame w/o leading ethernet header (len 0 pkt len 0) > > All I can do is repeatedly hit <CTRL>+C until the log-on screen > appears. Then log-in as root and reboot. Sometimes this works and > sometimes it doesn't. The same phenomena may happen repeatedly 10 > times or more or suddenly just disappear. I have tried using > "ifconfig" to bring the network up when this happens but it fails. > Only a reboot seems to make any difference. > > I am at a loss to figure out how to correct this problem or even what > is causing it. It just suddenly started approximately three months > ago. I have changed routers so I think I can safely eliminate that as > the source of the problem. None of my Windows machines have ever > complained about this so I am wondering if it isn't local to FreeBSD. > I think the problem first manifested itself after updating to the > "8.2" version since I do not remember it happening prior to that. > Have you ruled out a possible hardware problem (defect, interface "going bad")? -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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