From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 16:13:34 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 C8DA01065673 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE178FC17 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:13:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr16.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3PGD2rN011400; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:13:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D4243B829; Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:13:01 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: "Alain G. Fabry" Message-ID: <20080425161301.GD86456@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: "Alain G. Fabry" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20080425130152.GA28369@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qGV0fN9tzfkG3CxV" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080425130152.GA28369@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 16:13:34 -0000 --qGV0fN9tzfkG3CxV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:01:53PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > 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.=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > Input/output errors, reboot when performing a simple 'man > something'. -> could this be a virus or something?=20 More likely bad hardware, bad RAM in particular. Or a power supply that's about to give up. > I'm not sure how or what I can do to find out what could be the cause > of this problem?=20 Run a memory test program. Use a health monitoring program like mbmon to check if the on-board voltage and temperature sensors produce strange value= s. Hardware problems are notoriously difficult to debug. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --qGV0fN9tzfkG3CxV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkgSAw0ACgkQEnfvsMMhpyU3NgCaA6d8l0OdZ9XSYLVvei90sEwW 37MAn0/b1st4htv3NNIFWun+1skJxrk9 =AOq2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qGV0fN9tzfkG3CxV--