Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 12:33:40 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> To: "Blaz Zupan" <blaz@gold.amis.net>, "Petri Helenius" <pete@sms.fi> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <01f801be545a$b7a22800$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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My machine that reboots all the time uses an old Cirus Logic chip I
believe. It is an ISA video card. I never have problems with my PII-333
running a Diamond Viper 550 AGP and an Asante PCI 10BaseT ethernet card.
This machine rarely runs ssh but it usually had sshd running. The rogue
machine (reboots) also uses sshd. That is the only comparison I see between
your comments and my hardware/software.
I suspect the problem is rooted deeper in the networking code and is not
directly hardware related. One thing that does seem to be common is the
fact that some sort of networking is going on, but then again, that would be
a rare case when that wasn't true. However, a dial-up connection may have a
much longer period of time go by before the problem manifested itself.
Higher bandwidth could certainly trip this up faster.
However, I can say that the reboot ALWAYS occurrs with network activity,
either on initial connects, prolonged activity or intense activity. Doesn't
seem to be anything else. Perhaps a combination of similar hardware and
networking or something.
Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Petri Helenius wrote:
> > Is anyone with a 586 or 686-class CPU seeing the spontaneous reboots
with
> > 3.0-STABLE or 4.0-CURRENT?
> Yes.
> The machine below reboots 1-5 times a day.
> It started after 2.2.8-->3.0 and eventually 4.0 upgrade.
Ok, I looked at your dmesg output, here is what you have in common with
my box:
> vga0: <S3 Trio graphics accelerator> rev 0x54 int a irq 9 on pci0.16.0
> vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
My box says this:
> vga0: <S3 Trio graphics accelerator> rev 0x53 int a irq 11 on pci0.11.0
> vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
Ok, so we seem to be using a simmilar graphic card. What are the other
guys having this problem using?
If the others are not using S3 Trio cards, then it does not seem to be a
hardware problem, because this is the only common hardware that I have
with Petri.
Next: software. I'm running qmail, sshd, isdnd (for ISDN) and X (login
through xdm, WindowMaker window manager). Bug can be triggered by starting
up an ISDN connection to my ISP, which starts a UUCP over TCP download,
then at the same time I usually run a cvsup and also ssh. The machine
sponteously reboots a couple of seconds after the ISDN connection is
established.
Another idea: here is my kernel configuration file. Others having problems
please mail me your kernel configuration files (private mail, to not
clutter this mailing list). I _do_ have softupdates turned on. Notice that
I have recently removed ed0 and added DDB to my kernel config file and I
don't yet know any impact this will have on the problem.
machine "i386"
cpu "I486_CPU"
ident GOLD
maxusers 32
options INET #InterNETworking
options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!]
options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3
options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console
options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor
options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor
options SYSVSHM
options SYSVSEM
options SYSVMSG
options AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO
options "VM86"
options SOFTUPDATES
options "TEL_S0_16_3"
options "P1003_1B"
options "_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING"
options "_KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L"
options KTRACE
options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel
config kernel root on da1
controller isa0
controller pci0
controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2
disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
controller ahc0
controller scbus0
device da0
device cd0
device pass0
controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty
device atkbd0 at isa? tty irq 1
device vga0 at isa? port ? conflicts
device sc0 at isa? tty
pseudo-device splash
device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13
device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4
device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3
device sio2 at isa? port "IO_COM3" tty irq 5
device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000
device isic0 at isa? port 0xd80 net irq 12 flags 3
controller ppbus0
controller vpo0 at ppbus?
device nlpt0 at ppbus?
device plip0 at ppbus?
controller ppc0 at isa? port ? tty irq 7
pseudo-device loop
pseudo-device ppp 2
pseudo-device sppp 4
pseudo-device tun 1
pseudo-device pty 16
pseudo-device ether
pseudo-device bpfilter 4
pseudo-device streams
pseudo-device "i4bq921"
pseudo-device "i4bq931"
pseudo-device "i4b"
pseudo-device "i4btrc" 4
pseudo-device "i4bctl"
pseudo-device "i4brbch" 4
pseudo-device "i4btel" 2
pseudo-device "i4bipr" 4
pseudo-device "i4bisppp" 4
Next try: Does anyone who is seeing the problem have another box available
that he could use as a serial console (to catch any possible messages
displayed on the console)? I'll try to do this and it would be helpful if
somebody else does this as well.
Blaz Zupan, blaz@medinet.si, http://home.amis.net/blaz
Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
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