Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:19:44 GMT From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: tar makes the kernel crash Message-ID: <E14nEum-0000t8-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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> You mean it could be RAM or Disk or whatever ? Yes, bad RAM, CPU, overheating or something like that can cause a machine check. ECC on the memory can do a lot to avoid crashes, but sometimes you get a machinecheck anyway. How about cleaning the machine (dust is bad for cooling) & reseating the memory? I cannot tell from here, but it has fixed problems for me in the past. Wilko > I Actually changed the RZ26 original Quantum disk with a > IBM DNES 18Gb, but everything seems to work fine with the disk which is > really also very fast. > > thanks > > Rick > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:19:22 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> > > To: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it> > > Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: tar makes the kernel crash > > > > > > Riccardo Veraldi writes: > > > > > > I was doung a tar -xvf ports.tgz > > > > > > after a while the kernel crashes wit this message: > > > /kernel: unexpected machine check: > > > /kernel: panic: machine check > > > > > > then it dumps a few registers and the pid and name of the program > > > comm=tar > > > > > > anyone have some idea what it could be due ?? > > > thanks > > > > Typically, an unexpected machine check implies bad hardware. > > > > Drew > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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