Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:16:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Allen <zarcondeegrissom@yahoo.com> To: Jasper O'Malley <jooji@nickelkid.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lockups on 4.1.1-STABLE after upgrade from 3.4 Message-ID: <20001013051610.21772.qmail@web1203.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- Jasper O'Malley <jooji@nickelkid.com> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I've got problems with a customer's firewall, > running FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE > 3.4.10. The machine locks up solid once or twice a > day, usually twice, at > about the same times every day. When it locks up, > it's simply frozen. No > panics, no network connectivity, and the console > freezes--no new messages, > cannot send input from the keyboard, cannot switch > virtual terminals. The > only thing to do is hit the reset button or power > cycle the box. I ran a > full fsck on all filesystems on Monday (October 10), > and didn't hit any > errors. > > > What I've done so far: > > 1) Stripped my kernel config down to the bare > minimum, removing support of > USB devices, as well (I don't use any), after > hearing similar problems > from other Compaq users which were solved by > disabling USB support. > > 2) Disabled usbd and deleted the usb.ko from the > /modules folder for good > measure. > > What I'm going to do: > > 1) Cvsup today's sources, just to be sure. > > 2) Bump NMBCLUSTERS up to 4096 and try out a new > kernel. > > 3) Upgrade IP Filter to 3.4.11. > > If this doesn't work, I'm going to have to backrev > to 4.1-RELEASE, but I'd > rather not do that if I don't have to. > > Anyone have any idea what else I can try? > > Cheers, > Mick If the box lockes up at the same time try a netstat and watch what is hapenning just befor it lockes up, compare that to a freshboot netstat. try top as well. heardwear? can you revert to 3.4 for a trial. if that works fine, then it is ~99.99% NOT heardwear. best of luck, Dave __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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