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Date:      Thu, 02 Sep 1999 23:40:10 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Urgent(?) today's 3.3-RC crashes on boot 
Message-ID:  <199909030640.XAA00457@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 18:45:36 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909021834320.51838-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com> 

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> 	I say (?) because I strongly suspect that this is flaky
> hardware, however after spending the afternoon installing freebsd
> 3.2-Stable from 9/24, then upgrading via cvsup to the most recent 3.3-RC
> sources my machine crashed on reboot. I got dumps from 1 out of 7-10
> boots. Here is what they looked like (copied by hand):

If it's random like that, it's fairly hard to pin it on the loader.

> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> 
> int=0000000e	err=00000007	efl=00010216	eip=000052dc
> eax=00000004	ebx=000095ec	ecx=00000001	edx=000095ec
> esi=00025f68	edi=00094188	ebp=00093fa4	esp=00093fa4
> 
> cc=002b	ds=0033	es=0033	fs=0033	gs=0033	ss=0033
> 
> cs:eip=01 42 14 c9 c3 8d 76 00-55 89 e5 53 8b 5d 08 85
> ss:esp=cc 3f 09 00 e2 7e 00 00-ec 95 00 00 01 00 00 00
> 
> 	I suspect flaky hardware due to the fact that it wasn't
> consistent, and I used a configuration almost identical to the other
> similar boxes we have. Also the last batch of boxes from this vendor has
> had some other problems.  I'm having the night guys take the box down off
> the rack and reseat everything to see if that helps. If anyone has any
> suggestions (assuming the box is still borked tomorrow) or something for
> me to test (like ddb, etc.) just let me know.

No; at this point you might try things like swapping memory, CPU, 
motherboard etc.  What you're seeing above is basically the loader's 
equivalent of a kernel trap.

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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