Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:04:14 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: Rafael Caesar Lenzi <rc_lenzi@yahoo.com.br>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 Release freeze Message-ID: <20051117220414.GA98329@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20051117090954.GA7207@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20051116200051.GA35948@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051116223856.8382.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com> <20051116232720.GA5042@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051117090954.GA7207@uk.tiscali.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:09:54AM +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:27:21PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > The problem with jdk-1.5, eclipse and openoffice-2 it happened with two > > > other machines ( 1 acer notebook and other is a dell desktop ). > > > It considers that Jdk-1.5 is in alpha stage. > > > > No, userland applications do not cause spontaneous reboots unless > > there is a deeper underlying problem. > > Agreed - although this may be a different problem. > > For the 6.0 machine which is freezing, the short hardware description you > posted is insufficient. You need to post the full output of 'dmesg' so > people here can see exactly what hardware you have. (Preferably from booting > in verbose mode) > > There is also one simple thing which is worth trying: boot with ACPI > disabled. I suffered random reboots with early 5.x on my home machine, which > went away when ACPI was disabled (although later 5.x series were fine). It's > worth a try. If it works, then you can provide help to improve the ACPI > code. Good advice. It's also worth pointing out that many older machines have buggy ACPI implementations. Sometimes this can be fixed with a BIOS update from the vendor. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDfP5dWry0BWjoQKURAk3xAKCl3aUBH85sjGIeN79G6kgd51brIACfTMmN l819OHvtslLe7Kf+4X8nIKM= =r7pP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20051117220414.GA98329>