From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 5 7:30:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dojo.tao.ca (tao.ca [198.96.117.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EBC37B423 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 07:30:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anarcat@dojo.tao.ca) Received: from dojo.tao.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dojo.tao.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D8424E75 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:30:09 -0500 (EST) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboot, no panic. Recovering from a crash. From: The Anarcat X-Mailer: TWIG 2.1.1 Message-Id: <20010405143009.9D8424E75@dojo.tao.ca> Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 09:30:09 -0500 (EST) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your answer. It's good to know I'm not simply mad and had a lenghty hallucination yesterday. :) But as for hw, it might just be it in my case. My box has been so damn battered and tortured, that it's not that surprising that it crashes like that. A. fury said: > First of all sorry about the quote, I'm in my makeshift emailer at the > moment. > > Second, in response to your email, yes I have often received the same > response. I have managed to fix it for now basically on blind luck. > No it was NOT a hardware issue unlike many ppl stated, fact is, I have never > figured it out. There was one machine effects, where not the same as the > other *identical* machine. CVSup seemed to fix the spuratic one, but with > the only machine differences being two network cards of the same brand and > model, and in a series of serial numbers no less. First my suspect was the > adaptech 39160, but no, I swapped the good with the bad and no luck. Then I > tried a different video card, nope, different network cards, nope, memory > nope. I essentially went through every peice of hardware in the machine > including the motherboard, and power supply but not the seagate cheetah. Go > figure, > so I gave up on the list, but I will not do unto others that sound like the > same situation as it was done unto me at that time. Even if this is > insignifigant, at least you have a response, which is more than *I* got. > But what I think it all came down to, was probably a bad CVSup tree that > finally I just caught a good tree and after that all was well again. Maybe > you have some enlightenment from this, maybe not. I sure hope so, at least > *I* respond if I think its even close to relevant. > > -fury To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message