Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 15:39:26 -0400 From: Dwight Tuinstra <tuinstra@clarkson.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: occasional reboots Message-ID: <3921A3EE.E4464CA3@clarkson.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005161509310.5479-100000@jehovah.technokratis.com>
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Bosko Milekic wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Dwight Tuinstra wrote:
>
> > Pardon the "me too", but ... me too. With high frequency,
> > I get a spontaneous reboot when trying to "make buildworld"
> > after a fresh install of 4.0-RELEASE. Subsequent buildworlds
> > dump core on either signal 10 or signal 11. A plain "make"
> > will sometimes succeed, sometimes coredump with sig 10 or 11.
> > The coredumps seem to happen at random locations in the build.
>
> Sounds like hardware trouble.
>
> Key words: random, SIGBUS
I was afraid (but half expecting) someone would say that.
Does anyone have any suggestions about figuring out the cause?
Any suggestions on what (Award) BIOS options to set for
maximum stability?
Is it possible/probable that one of the option cards is to
blame? (Zoom telephonics IDE modem and ATI Rage II Pro Turbo
in one machine; de0 NIC and ATI Rage IIC in the other.)
Could it be caused by having a swap file too large?
Hmmm. come to think of it, the single successful build-
world I've done came after I disconnected the (ATAPI)
CD-ROM on my network-connected machine at work. I'll try
disconnecting the CD-ROM on the home machine tonight and
see what happens (may be 3-5 days before I can report back;
I'll be out of action for a while).
Hopefully I'll soon have a different mobo/CPU combo to
try it on as well.
Any other suggestions appreciated.
--Dwight Tuinstra
tuinstra@clarkson.edu
tuinstra@northnet.org
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