Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:18:38 -0500 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: "T.F. Cheng" <tfcheng@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: system failed, save tasks Message-ID: <f84c38580612260718t7959c4fmaf25464c8654d657@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061226081933.4bfa5f15.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <208487.66573.qm@web51012.mail.yahoo.com> <20061226081933.4bfa5f15.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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yeah, truely. i heard this voice coming out of my headset while i was sitting in the living room enjoying some holiday movies :-) It took me a while to attend to that, by the time I got to my console, my monitor had no signal, but the power light on the box is on. I couldn't login remotely so I press the reset button. I was running fluxbox-devel WM, I wonder if fluxbox has some log somewhere, I will check. btw, now i know that sk is junk, gladly i have another d-link card (rl) with me, i shall switch to that.. thanks!! TFC On 12/26/06, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> wrote: > > In response to "T.F. Cheng" <tfcheng@yahoo.com>: > > > hi, > > i just got a weird computer voice, saying "system > > failed, save tasks". > > By voice, do you mean it actually came out of the speakers? If so, it's > almost definitely your window manager (GNOME or KDE or whatever) and you > should at least provide information on what WM you're using, but you > might do even better to ask the question on a list dedicated to that WM. > > If that's not the case, then I don't know, I've never seen that particular > message before. > > the system is running > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Sat > > Dec 9 10:03:38 EST 2006 > > root@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/TFCHENG i386 > > i wondered what happened, i only have ssh running, and > > there are some attempt of break-in as logged in the > > auth.log, > > The failed attempts are fairly routine attacks and not much to worry > about. The successful attempts are the ones that should make you panic. > > In the /var/log/message, before i rebooted > > the system, the only messages were (on 12/25) : > > Dec 25 20:59:40 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 20:59:42 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 20:59:56 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 21:00:00 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 21:00:12 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 21:00:14 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 21:19:45 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 21:19:50 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 21:19:50 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 4, > > Channel 00000001 > > Dec 25 21:19:50 kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA > > retrying (1 retry left) LBA=8598287 > > Dec 25 21:19:53 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, > > Channel 00000000 > > Dec 25 21:19:53 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 4, > > Channel 00000001 > > > > what might have happened? where should I look?? > > > > thanks!! > > Looks like you have some cheap hardware. I've never seen an sk network > card that wasn't junk, and I seem to remember that they frequently > reset themselves. The ad6 error could indicate that your HDD is near > failure, or it could just be that your system got overloaded with work > at one point and the HDD was having trouble keeping up, as it seems to > have recovered. I don't know what the NVRM messages are, but they have > the look of a sound card. > > -- > Bill Moran > Collaborative Fusion Inc. >
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