Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:30:51 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System instability (Revisited) Message-ID: <200303270830.51025.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200303271511.h2RFBKSl000593@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> References: <200303271511.h2RFBKSl000593@himinbjorg.ttsg.com>
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On Thursday 27 March 2003 07:11 am, Tuc wrote: > Hi, > > I previously posted : > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >---------- Hi, > > Over the last month, my system has seemed very unstable. At > first I thought it was just the result of issues with X after the > system lost power mid install. Now it seems its just getting worse > and worse. I've cvsupd' up to yesterday morning. But I now see more > and more .core's being generated, and even saw : > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico: Shared object has > no run-tim e symbol table > > when I tried to get a uucp session going. I did get it one or > two other times on other programs. > > Where do I start? I'm getting frustrated enough to > re-install, but this only was installed 2 months ago. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------- > > Since then, I reformatted, and installed 4.8-RC2 and rebuilt > everything from the ground up (Ports wise, NOT system). > > That was 2 weeks ago, and since then not 1 X lockup, no unknown core > files, and *1* reboot (Suprisingly less than 24 hours after starting > SETI@HOME). I think you have hardware that is flaky. Seti uses 99+% of cpu and when you start anything else that is major, it is rebooting. I would suspect problems along the same lines as signal 11, i.e., heat or power related. I had a Celeron that would run for weeks but if I tried to build XFree86-libraries and run Seti, it would reboot. Eventuially, the heat got the cpu and the system completely died. Kent > > Could there have just been a bad file or something that just tripped > me up and it took a fresh install to clear it out? -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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