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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 19:17:38 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   RE: Mysterious reboots w/2.2.6-RELEASE.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980716191738.malte@webmore.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807160231.WAA00296@lakes.dignus.com>

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On 16-Jul-98 Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> 
> You may recall that I reported a few crashes with the 2.2.6-RELEASE
> and sent in tracebacks... but the kernel was not config'd -g so
> there was little info in the tracebacks.
...
> It seems that the machine is still mysteriously crashing, but now
> I don't get anything in /var/crash.
> 
> I just had the opportunity to see first-hand this happen; I was
> working and suddenly - "poof" away things went.
> 
> On the reboot - savecore issued the message "savecore: no core dump".
> 
> That is; the machine apparently just rebooted - no panic or nothing...
> 
> 
> Has anyone else experienced mysterious, non-panic reboots?

Yes !!!

> This is while in X, and didn't seem to happen with the 2.2.5-RELEASE.
> Perhaps there's something in the X code (Matrox Millenium II card)
> that's causing this spontaneous reboot...

Yes exactly. Always in X and very often related to netscape.
After playing around with the scsi-subsystem (termination, order of devices...)
the crashes happend not as frequent but they still happend.
Then i changed the PCI-SLOT-IRQ assignment for my graphics-card in BIOS from
"Auto" to "NA". No crash so far (2 weeks).

Malte.

> 
>       - Dave Rivers -
> 
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Date: 16-Jul-98
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