From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 4 2:45:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (www.svzserv.kemerovo.su [213.184.65.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80AF37B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 02:45:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from svzserv.kemerovo.su (kost [213.184.65.82]) by www.svzserv.kemerovo.su (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g24Aj2Y00903; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:45:04 +0700 (KRAT) (envelope-from eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su) Message-ID: <3C835026.FFAD057F@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 17:44:54 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein Organization: SVZServ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan E Fosburgh Cc: Matthew Dillon , McKusick , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-STABLE softupdates brokeness: repeated panics and lockups References: <20020303120121.A2197@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <200203031759.g23Hx0W62463@apollo.backplane.com> <20020304092100.A1500@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <20020304032359.C58BCA945@gw.fosburgh.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I noticed earlier in the thread someone mention that you check the RAM, and > I'll throw in a little more in that area. Back in October I moved, and > afterwards my computer would panic constantly. The panics almost always made > it look like a failing hard drive, but the drive would always certifiy with > Western Digital's diagnostics. Finally, poking around in the BIOS, I came > across an option for Fast POST. Turning this off, I rebooted and it did a > memory scan. It failed. I had a stick of 32M and one of 64M. I first took > out the 32, and the 64 came up fine. The I changed them out, and the 32 > failed. Interestingly, booting off of that stick could only locate 3M, and > the OS would not load. So, next time you have the system down (which > unfortunately sounds like it will be all too soon), make sure you do not have > a Fast POST or Fast Boot option turned on in your BIOS. This machine has Intel CA810 Motherboard. Well, I know it is not server platform. However, it has been working for some years without a glitch. I've just rebooted this server, entered BIOS and set 'Quick Boot' to 'disable' then rebooted again. POST tested memory slowly and found no errors. Now I turned softupdates off and will not use pppd tonight. Let's see. Perhaps, there was a bad moment for cvsup? Should I cvsup again or it will be better to stick to this configuration and try collecting more crashdumps? Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message