Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:56:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second severe crash in six weeks Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703171355520.23129@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20170317195043.GA5295@becker.bs.l> References: <20170315222221.GA18691@becker.bs.l> <eb296c6a-a437-9b02-3e80-067eaba2cf04@FreeBSD.org> <20170317195043.GA5295@becker.bs.l>
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > On Thursday, 16. Mar 2017, 08:59:44 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 15/03/2017 22:22, Bertram Scharpf wrote: >>> since I upgraded to FreeBSD 11.0, every second >>> port rebuild freezes the system. Besides that, >>> in the last two weeks I had two packages that >>> refused to build. >> >> This does sound like hardware problems to me. > > I admit the hardware is a little bit old. But at the moment > _everything_ is messed up almost at once. That's too much. > > Today I began trying to reproduce the problem by creating > a USB stick with 11.0. I started saying this: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=usbstick.img bs=1M count=7552 A count should not be necessary, it will stop when it runs out of input. > And yet, the system froze again! This really sounds like hardware problems, likely RAM or power supply. Can it run memtest86 for any length of time?
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