Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 00:05:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>, obiwan@zeppelin.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, bde@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.0-19970209-SNAP to -current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970424231726.218A-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199704241115.VAA06027@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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Well I hate to throw a 'monkey wrench' into the spoke of this problem, but I'm running 3.0-current (last CVSUP was Fri. 4/6 which includes the lite2 merge) with a Western Digital 1.6 EIDE as master on the primary and a Sony 8X ATAPI slave and a Western Digital 3.1 EIDE as master on the secondary controller. I'm also running X w/ Accelerated X. I haven't had any reboots, other than the one's I've initiated with shutdown -r now (that's because fetchmail was acting strange). I've had uptime as high as 8 days before I rebooted. I'm not using NFS but I do have ppp on-demand running. I'll try killing it to see if my machine reboots by itself. I killed ppp and so far the system has not rebooted. FWIW, here's my setup: ASUS P/I P55T2P4 MB w/ 512k pipeline burst w/ P5-133, 64MB EDO (non-parity) RAM, SMC ethernet card, Matrox Mystique 4MB video, ProAudiospectrum 16 sound w/ SCSI and Supra Express 28.8 Plug-N-Pray modem. I started w/ 2.1.5R --> 2.2 SNAP 961014 --> 3.0 SNAP 970209 --> 3.0-current CVSUP 4/6 w/ make world & kernel rebuild. On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, David Nugent wrote: > > > I've been trying to reproduce the problem on the other machines, > > > but be damned if I can even see a pattern. It is a very uncomplicated > > > system P166/32mb RAM, 2 large EIDE drives, no X, just ppp dialin lines > > > with a digiboard card. Anyone else wish to exchange notes? > > > > > > > Does this machine reboot alot? > > I guess "alot" is somewhat subjective, but rebooting spontaneously > for any reason is a lot in my books! :-) > > But around once at least every 3 days it'll just reboot, and some > days are worse than others. No message, no (apparent) panic. As > I've already mentioned, though, I don't have DDB enabled on that > system, but even if I did it may not do any good. > > > I'm reboot mine at will simply by dropping > > pppd or killing it. > > Ouch. I don't *think* it is as simple as that. This machine varies > between 7500 - 9200 minites of user dialin time per day, 99% of > connections being pppd. If the problem was pppd dropping, then > it'd be a lot more frequently! > > Then again... I did notice only yesterday that when one machine > that was connected via a standard sio device hung up, the machine > rebooted pretty much at that same instant, although this is the > only time I've noticed the coincidence. Activity on the digiboard > ports don't seem to be involved, and that's where all of the dialin > customers call in. Activity on the standard serial ports is > relatively infrequent. > > Might it be an sio problem? If this is possible, then I might > revert to an earlier version of the sio driver and see if I can > work out what's going on. > > > -- > David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia > Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet > davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/ > > > --- Brought to you by a 100% Micro$oft free system. You too can disinfect your system at http://www.freebsd.org E-Mail: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com Alternate E-Mail: bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu Home Page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley (permanently under construction)
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