Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 12:14:55 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: isn't this the worst possible report?? Message-ID: <a204e3ce-dfb2-8f1e-852a-a43da59b056b@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <1410500115.6001690.1475677275963@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1410500115.6001690.1475677275963.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1410500115.6001690.1475677275963@mail.yahoo.com>
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On 5/10/2016 7:21 AM, Jules Gilbert via freebsd-security wrote: > Well maybe worse, that the deal with AT&T for the BSD franchise has fallen apart... > Okay, so I have a FreeBSD 10.1 CD-ROM, believed to be a true copy and authentic copy. > And I loaded it on a computer. I did this entirely offline. I also supplied passwords. > > Then I went online to get packages. > Nothing unusual happened UNTIL the machine seized and when I rebooted I discovered it would hang and reboot. A loop. > I had done nothing to cause this. I had not opened an X session nor done anything other than load packages such as maxima, cproto. Nothing involved in the area of security. > > I had thought this was pretty much impossible... Remember, this machine was brand new, I'd loaded FBSD-10.1 on it no more than an hour prior and had not messed with any of the internals. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > depending on where it rebooted, it really sounds like an infant mortality problem.. (failure in computer or drive). (brand new machines have a much higher chance of failure than middle aged machines, as all the components burn in.) why is this in 'security'?
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