Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:16:22 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Brian J. Conway" <bconway@clue4all.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <d7195cff0703112216k41a12cf2nce5507d6ec1c522@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070311221556.2d41802a.bconway@clue4all.net> References: <20070310105759.6980f90e.bconway@clue4all.net> <20070311221556.2d41802a.bconway@clue4all.net>
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On 11/03/07, Brian J. Conway <bconway@clue4all.net> wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:57:59 -0500 > "Brian J. Conway" <bconway@clue4all.net> wrote: > > > > I had exactly the same problem in my acpi-blacklisted motherboard. I > > > disabled acpi and the errors vanished. In my case, this error was not > > > related with NICs, but exclusively with the motherboard. > > > > Interesting. I hadn't thought of that, but I am using ACPI now where I > > was not on 4.x. I'll give that a try next time it happens. I would > > have hoped the motherboard would be up to par (Intel D845GVSR with the > > latest BIOS - > > http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D845GVSR/index.htm), but maybe > > not. Thanks. > > > > (Sorry for the bad threading, I'm off list and copying off the web > > archive.) > > > > Brian J. Conway > > No luck, got the first timeout shortly (25 min) after boot without ACPI, > again while mostly idle and I'm not able to repeat it more than once a day > or so: > > Mar 12 01:49:19 imogen kernel: xl0: watchdog timeout > Mar 12 01:49:19 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to DOWN > Mar 12 01:49:21 imogen kernel: xl0: link state changed to UP > > Any other ideas? Original post, for reference: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/144227.html My first suspicion was that your NIC is dying. I had those basic symptoms some years ago and within a few days was suffering unintended reboots from kernel panics. Replacing the NIC solved it. -- --
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