From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 07:51:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6EB816A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casper.sri.com (casper.SRI.COM [128.18.243.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10B7943FE1 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gilham@csl.sri.com) Received: (qmail 14104 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2003 14:50:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO casper.SRI.COM) (127.0.0.1) by casper.sri.com with SMTP; 6 Oct 2003 14:50:48 -0000 Received: from quarter.csl.sri.com ([130.107.1.30]) by casper.SRI.COM (SAVSMTP 3.1.0.29) with SMTP id M2003100607504814187 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2003 07:50:48 -0700 Received: from snapdragon.csl.sri.com (snapdragon.csl.sri.com [130.107.19.20]) by quarter.csl.sri.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h96Eomsk018333 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 07:50:48 -0700 Message-Id: <200310061450.h96Eomsk018333@quarter.csl.sri.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message from hg@cally.queue.to <20031004165932.94381.qmail@cally.queue.to> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 07:50:48 -0700 From: Fred Gilham Subject: Re: plateful of crow (was Re: Frequent reboots...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:51:05 -0000 hg@cally.queue.to wrote: > In mpc.lists.freebsd.stable, I wrote: > : : I'm also seeing this disturbing new problem concurrent an > : : install of 4.9-PRERELASE, have not suffered this problem > : : throughout 3.1 and up through 4.8-RC1. > > Coincidental is a lot more accurate. When the power supply on this > machine popped and hour ago and filled the room with the sickeningly > sweet smell of resistor it became pretty clear this was a hardware > issue. Too bad I didn't put the plateful of crow on top of the box > so at least that would've been warmed up before I had to eat it. > "nevermind" This is so weird. I went to the latest stable, which turned out to be 4.9 RC-something, and my system started hanging. Then when I went back to 4.8 it kept on hanging. Turned out to be a disk going bad. Maybe 4.9 is haunted, maybe its daemon has gone rogue and started eating hardware. :-) -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com If you hold a controversial position you will draw controversy and its cousins: denunciation, dislike, etc. It's the price you pay. And unlike Tom Daschle, I pay it without a taxpayer-funded security team to keep me safe. -- Peggy Noonan