Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 21:23:59 -0600 From: Jonathan E Fosburgh <jonathan@fosburgh.org> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@www.svzserv.kemerovo.su>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: McKusick <mckusick@chez.McKusick.COM>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-STABLE softupdates brokeness: repeated panics and lockups Message-ID: <20020304032359.C58BCA945@gw.fosburgh.org> In-Reply-To: <20020304092100.A1500@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <20020303120121.A2197@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <200203031759.g23Hx0W62463@apollo.backplane.com> <20020304092100.A1500@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:21 pm, Eugene Grosbein wrote: <snip> > IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x00382000 > initial pcb at physical address 0x002e8c60 > panicstr: from debugger > panic messages: > --- > panic: softdep_check_for_rollback: Unexpected type freefrag > > syncing disks... > panic: from debugger > Uptime: 19h12m55s > > <snip> I noticed earlier in the thread someone mention that you check the RAM, and I'll throw in a little more in that area. Back in October I moved, and afterwards my computer would panic constantly. The panics almost always made it look like a failing hard drive, but the drive would always certifiy with Western Digital's diagnostics. Finally, poking around in the BIOS, I came across an option for Fast POST. Turning this off, I rebooted and it did a memory scan. It failed. I had a stick of 32M and one of 64M. I first took out the 32, and the 64 came up fine. The I changed them out, and the 32 failed. Interestingly, booting off of that stick could only locate 3M, and the OS would not load. So, next time you have the system down (which unfortunately sounds like it will be all too soon), make sure you do not have a Fast POST or Fast Boot option turned on in your BIOS. -- Jonathan Fosburgh Software Systems Specialist III MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.fosburgh.org Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.fosburgh.org/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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