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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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