Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:52:12 -0500 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: "Lester Igo" <igo@vtic.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stable not so Stable? Message-ID: <00b101c14bb6$8d449e20$11fd2fd8@westbend.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109301949310.803-100000@confusion>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00AC_01C14B8C.7E2149E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Lester Igo" <igo@vtic.net> > I am having crashing problems with FreeBSD-stable. > > 2. Then I had to reboot on Sat Sept 29th because "some buffers" were not > emptying correctly. The symptom would basically be that the last litle > bit of output would not show up until more data was transfered, (for > example prompts would not show up until I started typing the next command, > "screen"s would finish drawing 3/4 of the way through the screen, etc) > > > So, I decided to udpate -stable again and get 1 week newer to see if the > problems were fixed... > > Since then, I haven't been able to get more than about 6 hours of > uptime between crashes... I have had a mixture of "hard hangs" (have to > kill power to reboot), and reboots with no error messages. > > > Any ideas on the problems I have been seeing? Are there known issues, > if so any timelines to have them fixed in? > > I am going to be remote this week, so I am supping back to 4.4 release > (I was at 4.4 RC before this and all was happy) to help keep things stable > while I am not close by to reboot. > > > What is my system? > > GigaByte GA-586DX w/Dual P166MMX cpus and Adaptec aic7880 on board. > Two Intel PCI EtherExpressPro (fxp) cards. > We have the same motherboard, GA-586DX w/Dual P200 non-MMX cpus, on board Adaptec aic7880, and on EtherExpress Pro (fxp) card, and only experienced crashes on our build system since updating it from 4.3-STABLE to 4.4-RC and several 4.4-STABLE builds, updating our other GA-586DX systems with 4.4-STABLE, that was compiled on the build system resulted in no crashes on these systems. We suspect a misconfigured BIOS setting caused the crashes (PNP BIOS set to AUTO instead of MANUAL). We CVSupped to a 4.4-STABLE as of Sep 28th, and installed the updated binaries on the build system Oct 1st. So far it hasn't crashed since changing the PNP BIOS setting to MANUAL. Scot ------=_NextPart_000_00AC_01C14B8C.7E2149E0 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="WBI-SMP" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="WBI-SMP" #=0A= # GENERIC -- Generic kernel configuration file for FreeBSD/i386=0A= #=0A= # For more information on this file, please read the handbook section on=0A= # Kernel Configuration Files:=0A= #=0A= # http://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html=0A= #=0A= # The handbook is also available locally in /usr/share/doc/handbook=0A= # if you've installed the doc distribution, otherwise always see the=0A= # FreeBSD World Wide Web server (http://www.FreeBSD.org/) for the=0A= # latest information.=0A= #=0A= # An exhaustive list of options and more detailed explanations of the=0A= # device lines is also present in the ./LINT configuration file. 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