From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 26 15:18:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8B216A4A0 for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:18:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1DF513C48B for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i11so1667658nzh for ; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:18:38 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=tIsz1FFyFbKV3Zankx3Dzy+e2N5hwBEk/bpzLYcUzoDEQLFXDXdp92umb8bZsCaJznNKYvihXJRfoSL2aOb6B4udM0sRbiTEjw/IarHjh346PCzwijy6xuwIAW+LETnu0TjazL+/XfzD99gYud/WX7O8C9BWdip3Ny1oRC6qt8s= Received: by 10.35.49.15 with SMTP id b15mr24661612pyk.1167146318765; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.16.1 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:18:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:18:38 -0500 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" To: "Bill Moran" In-Reply-To: <20061226081933.4bfa5f15.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <208487.66573.qm@web51012.mail.yahoo.com> <20061226081933.4bfa5f15.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "T.F. Cheng" , FreeBSD Subject: Re: system failed, save tasks 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: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:18:39 -0000 yeah, truely. i heard this voice coming out of my headset while i was sitting in the living room enjoying some holiday movies :-) It took me a while to attend to that, by the time I got to my console, my monitor had no signal, but the power light on the box is on. I couldn't login remotely so I press the reset button. I was running fluxbox-devel WM, I wonder if fluxbox has some log somewhere, I will check. btw, now i know that sk is junk, gladly i have another d-link card (rl) with me, i shall switch to that.. thanks!! TFC On 12/26/06, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to "T.F. Cheng" : > > > hi, > > i just got a weird computer voice, saying "system > > failed, save tasks". > > By voice, do you mean it actually came out of the speakers? If so, it's > almost definitely your window manager (GNOME or KDE or whatever) and you > should at least provide information on what WM you're using, but you > might do even better to ask the question on a list dedicated to that WM. > > If that's not the case, then I don't know, I've never seen that particular > message before. > > the system is running > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #6: Sat > > Dec 9 10:03:38 EST 2006 > > root@:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/TFCHENG i386 > > i wondered what happened, i only have ssh running, and > > there are some attempt of break-in as logged in the > > auth.log, > > The failed attempts are fairly routine attacks and not much to worry > about. The successful attempts are the ones that should make you panic. > > In the /var/log/message, before i rebooted > > the system, the only messages were (on 12/25) : > > Dec 25 20:59:40 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 20:59:42 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 20:59:56 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 21:00:00 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 21:00:12 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 21:00:14 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 21:19:45 kernel: sk0: link state changed to > > DOWN > > Dec 25 21:19:50 kernel: sk0: link state changed to UP > > Dec 25 21:19:50 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 4, > > Channel 00000001 > > Dec 25 21:19:50 kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA > > retrying (1 retry left) LBA=8598287 > > Dec 25 21:19:53 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 8, > > Channel 00000000 > > Dec 25 21:19:53 kernel: NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 4, > > Channel 00000001 > > > > what might have happened? where should I look?? > > > > thanks!! > > Looks like you have some cheap hardware. I've never seen an sk network > card that wasn't junk, and I seem to remember that they frequently > reset themselves. The ad6 error could indicate that your HDD is near > failure, or it could just be that your system got overloaded with work > at one point and the HDD was having trouble keeping up, as it seems to > have recovered. I don't know what the NVRM messages are, but they have > the look of a sound card. > > -- > Bill Moran > Collaborative Fusion Inc. >