From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 10:11:53 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 7B67816A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp3.sentex.ca (smtp3.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC9E43F93 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from avscan1.sentex.ca (avscan1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.11]) by smtp3.sentex.ca (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h94HBmHr099224; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:11:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by avscan1.sentex.ca (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h94HBpZR056599; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:11:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h94HBndK002242; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:11:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.0.20031004131055.059275a0@209.112.4.2> X-Sender: mdtpop@209.112.4.2 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:14:52 -0400 To: hg@queue.to, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20031004165932.94381.qmail@cally.queue.to> References: <20030930034849.GA46581@scylla.towardex.com> <20031003233557.50553.qmail@cally.queue.to> <20031004112945.67756.qmail@cally.queue.to> <20031004165932.94381.qmail@cally.queue.to> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by Sentex Communications (avscan1/20021227) 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: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:11:53 -0000 At 12:59 PM 04/10/2003, 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" 'plate o crow' like humble pie are very common dishes. I have had many a helping myself..... Problems of this variety are really crappy. Its soooo much easier when hardware just fails. Marginal power supplies I find are the worst. I find that enabling core dumps help. If the crash is in a different and seemingly random place each time, I will look at hardware issues quicker. ---Mike