From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 9 23:19:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6427416A420 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 23:19:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53A643D48 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 23:19:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k29NJZV8050123; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:19:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060309171632.0287f4c0@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:19:29 -0600 To: Grant Peel , From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <004e01c643cd$51db21b0$6701a8c0@GRANT> References: <004e01c643cd$51db21b0$6701a8c0@GRANT> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: System Freezing -Again 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: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:19:50 -0000 A freeze like you describe, no logging sounds like a hardware problem. You didn't include a current dmesg or other system inventory. You may have shared irq's causing the problem, or a power supply, or a management board. Those are the three things I would look at. -Derek At 05:00 PM 3/9/2006, Grant Peel wrote: >Hi all, > >I have been pestering everyone who will listen on this, and have yet to >find a solution ... so here goes again! > >I have a FreeBSD system on a Dell PE 1850 that has been randomly freezing >up from time to time in the past two weeks. > >Firewall is enabled, but is very solid as I am using the same rules on >several other machines. > >I spent last Saturday and Sunday at the NOC, running Dell 32 bit >diagnostics on it, along with memtest32, no errors found over many hours >of testing. > >NO heat of note from the Power supply CPU or system fan. > >Nothing ever in log files, no core dumps. I have the DUMDEV="AUTO" set in >rc.conf, but ran dumpon -v /dev/da0s1b today, the output showed it should >be dumping to my swap partition. > >APIC is disabled now, but has been enabled in the past, with the same >results. POwer management is shut off in the bios. > >No System Events are being recorded in BIOS, and, the logs were harvested >last week with no abnormalitied showing. > >The only item of note, that I found after todays freeze, was in >/var/log/maillog, and /var/log/exim/mainlog, about 15 lines of ^@ >recorded at about the exact tine of the freeze. Does anyone think this is >significant, or is it simply a symptom of the crash? > >ANY help will be greatly appreciated. > >-GRant > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"