From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 13:05:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1DCC1065675 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:05:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alainfabry@belgacom.net) Received: from mailrelay008.isp.belgacom.be (mailrelay008.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.6.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECE48FC1D for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:05:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alainfabry@belgacom.net) X-Belgacom-Dynamic: yes X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjAKAKBzEUhR9Nqb/2dsb2JhbACBUosRn2k Received: from 155.218-244-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be (HELO belgacom.net) ([81.244.218.155]) by relay.skynet.be with ESMTP; 25 Apr 2008 15:05:50 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:01:53 +0200 From: "Alain G. Fabry" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080425130152.GA28369@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: freeze and crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:05:53 -0000 Have a issue here. I've been running FreeBSD 6.3 release for about 6 months now without problem. Then last week I purchase another external HD and installed release 7.0. Everything went great for about 3 weeks. Then suddenly my 7.0 started to crash (kde freezing, sudden reboots, etc). The first time happened when I was performing a portsnap on a FreeBSD Qemu session. It came up to the point where this 7.0 installation wasn't workable anymore. Since I need to work to earn money as the rest of us, I fell back to my 6.3 release external HD -> copied over my data files and now I'm starting to get the same symthoms. Input/output errors, reboot when performing a simple 'man something'. -> could this be a virus or something? I'm not sure how or what I can do to find out what could be the cause of this problem? Is there anywhere I can find out more about debugging such strange behavior. (everything works fine and then suddenly it freezes permanently or just reboots on its own) Thanks, PS: I'm about to reinstall the 7.0 release and hope that that will work normal again. Alain