Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:30:06 +0100 From: Gerald Heinig <heinig@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de> To: isdn@freebsd.org Subject: Black tuesday :-( Message-ID: <38444FEE.977FC696@hdz-ima.rwth-aachen.de>
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Hi all, I regret to announce what I believe may be my first *ever* crash of FreeBSD (3.3 RELEASE at the moment), or at least as far as I remember. A few details: I had netscape iconified (Navigator and Messenger) and I´m in the habit of ifconfig´ing my interface (sync PPPoISDN) down after fetching mail or whatever. I know, I don´t really need to, but it´s a habit :-) The only things that are out of the ordinary this time are a) I made my ifconfig setuid root (I have no security concerns here) to spare me the su every time (yes, I know, lazy bum...). I´ve had it this way for maybe a month or two, and I fetch mail at least twice a day. b) I normally exit Netscape after reading mail/whatever, as opposed to iconifying it this time. I ifconfig´ed up isp0, did a fetchmail and got the BIOS message. In other words: fetchmail... 3 seconds...blank screen...BIOS startup message. No message at all from the kernel. My suspicion is with the hardware, since if the kernel gets its knickers in a twist, it should at least say something. I can´t imagine the stuff with Netscape and ifconfig having anything to do with this either, but I´ve included it for completeness. My hardware is a AVM Fritz! ISA card which has given me *flawless* performance thus far. Any comments on this? Also, I´d like a few tips on how to go about preparing for a repeat. I assume this bug (if indeed it is a bug!) is *very* rare, since, give or take a protocol message or two in earlier versions, I haven´t heard so much as a squeak from my setup for several months. Cheers Gerald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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