Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 09:27:26 -0400 From: "John Straiton" <jks@clickcom.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: FW: Spontaneous Reboot problem Message-ID: <NEBBIGBGCKECLJCEOHJCEEAICFAA.jks@clickcom.com>
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Ok, as a follow up here's what else I have done: Replaced the case & powersupply replaced both NIC's with a spare, individually with a Linksys I had spare. So with the exception of the HD and the data on it, EVERYTHING in the machine has been swapped out. So I guess we're left with it actually being a software issue. Here's more information about the panics: They are all of trap 18, and are caused by seemingly ANY network process. By that I mean if you FTP , SSH, Telnet or use Samba to the machine, they ALL cause the machine to panic within 60 seconds of connections. All those services fail as well. For example, if you FTP to the machine you get the Connect, but no data, no welcome msg, nothing. Then within a minute, the machine panics. Now I would have thought that a buildworld would have fixed that but I guess not since it's still doing it. Any last suggestions before I have to format/reinstall? John Straiton ClickCom, Inc. jks@clickcom.com (704)365-9970x101 > I have a machine at home that is about to drive me nuts. For the last 6 > months it's worked fine with one exception. I could not do a buildworld. > About midway through the attempts, I would get a kernel panic. > Occationally > it would seem to do it if I was doing the occational packetsniffing. (then > again I only use the machine for a couple of things) If I used > the machine > for anything more than a nat gateway and a fileserver, this would have > bothered me more, but in this case it didn't. > > *however* > > About 3 days ago it started getting into the habit of panicing very > frequently, doing anything, or seemingly nothing sometimes. Samba > operations > seem to be the absolute worst for forcing it into this error that > causes the > reboot. Usually by clicking "Network Neighborhood" on a machine > on the local > lan (Ethernet through a Cisco Cat2908) would cause about 4 copies > of SMBD to > fire up and then about 10 seconds later cause this error: > > "Integer divide while in kernel mode" > > yadda...yadda... > Rebooting in 15 seconds... > > After which the Windows machine would claim the network was unbrowseable. > > Now, in my experience, panics in a -STABLE or -RELEASE branch are usually > hardware error, so I went to swapping out hardware. I swapped the > K6-200 for > a Cyrix150+ i had laying around, and swapped the memory (128M > Dimm for 4 16M > Simms). Still a problem, so I reseated all the cards in the machine. Still > broken, I took everything out and put a new motherboard with a k6-2-300 > processor into a machine using 2 other 16M Dimms I had and then > replaced the > video card with an identical spare I had. Still broken, I removed the > SoundBlaster ISA card and was now able to browse "Network Neighborhood" > without causing a panic and was able to buildworld (which I did). > However I > *still* get these panics, just less frequently. Now before I swap out the > last 3 things left ( 2 NIC's and the Hard drive), I thought I'd get > suggestions from the list as to what might be going wrong so I > don't have to > reinstall this machine.. > > I'd give a uname but the machine panics when I try to telnet or > ssh to it so > from memory it's a 4.1-STABLE machine with a barely custom kernel.The mods > to GENERIC that I made were to add > > options IPFILTER > options IPFILTER_LOG > options QUOTA > device pcm > > and then recompile. The buildworld and kernel build were both done last > night from a CVS the day prior. > > It currently is a K6-2-300 w/ Asus P(3?)B-A MB & 2 16M Dimms. 1 > Intel NIC, 1 > 3Com NIC, Matrox Mystique & Maxtor 30GB HD. No CDRom. > It was a K6-200 w/ Asus TX97e & 1 128M Dimm, 1 Inet NIC, 1 3Com NIC, > SoundBlaster ISA (maybe a 64Value?) Matrox Mystique & Maxtor 30GB > HD. Still > no CDROM (removed after install). > > Any suggestions that would keep me from having to reinstall the > machine (and > gigs worth of ports cause I like it ready for anything...) would be > appreciated. > > John Straiton > ClickCom, Inc. > jks@clickcom.com > (704)365-9970x101 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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