Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:19:29 -0600 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System Freezing -Again Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060309171632.0287f4c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <004e01c643cd$51db21b0$6701a8c0@GRANT> References: <004e01c643cd$51db21b0$6701a8c0@GRANT>
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A freeze like you describe, no logging sounds like a hardware problem. You
didn't include a current dmesg or other system inventory. You may have
shared irq's causing the problem, or a power supply, or a management board.
Those are the three things I would look at.
-Derek
At 05:00 PM 3/9/2006, Grant Peel wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have been pestering everyone who will listen on this, and have yet to
>find a solution ... so here goes again!
>
>I have a FreeBSD system on a Dell PE 1850 that has been randomly freezing
>up from time to time in the past two weeks.
>
>Firewall is enabled, but is very solid as I am using the same rules on
>several other machines.
>
>I spent last Saturday and Sunday at the NOC, running Dell 32 bit
>diagnostics on it, along with memtest32, no errors found over many hours
>of testing.
>
>NO heat of note from the Power supply CPU or system fan.
>
>Nothing ever in log files, no core dumps. I have the DUMDEV="AUTO" set in
>rc.conf, but ran dumpon -v /dev/da0s1b today, the output showed it should
>be dumping to my swap partition.
>
>APIC is disabled now, but has been enabled in the past, with the same
>results. POwer management is shut off in the bios.
>
>No System Events are being recorded in BIOS, and, the logs were harvested
>last week with no abnormalitied showing.
>
>The only item of note, that I found after todays freeze, was in
>/var/log/maillog, and /var/log/exim/mainlog, about 15 lines of ^@
>recorded at about the exact tine of the freeze. Does anyone think this is
>significant, or is it simply a symptom of the crash?
>
>ANY help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>-GRant
>
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