On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:05:50AM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > > Shout at me, but the magic key mentioned in the manpage is ctrl+c on > > i386, right? > No. Try the second and third paragraphs of "man ddb".
Thanks. Got it! I will report as soon as the freeze occured again. > If it *ever* froze before ifstated/squid/dante/whatever was started, > then they are not required for it to occur. If it is a single bug you are totally right. Yes and you are right. If I only focus on a single bug, it is possible to eliminate more cases. > Indeed, happening that > early tends to make me think it's something in the network stack, its > configuration, and/or the network traffic that the machine sees. Yes, this is why I powered off the DSL modem during boot. > Hmm, you mention later that you _have_ reproduced it on other > hardware; can you install the current snapshot on to that other > hardware and test with it? You could then leave your current box as > is... Will put this on my ToDo list. > No traffic but it freezes. Does your building/area get power "brownouts"? During thunderstorms if lightnings hit the infrastructure im my area, yes. But no such event occured when the freeze happend. No flashing/dimming lights in this room. > > But the network is still on topic: Someone claimed he had no freezes > > if he disabled logging in PF. pflogd is started _after_ PF is enabled. > > Did anyone check what happens if pflogd is started before PF? Maybe I > > give it a try. It's just I feel uncomfortable in hacking /etc/rc. This > > file is not intended to be changed by users, right? > > That seems very unlikely. If it was something like that I would > expect it to be more consistent. Thanks. So no need to do such hacks. BTW: No freeze for three days (about 8 times booted the box) now. *knock*on*wood* - Eps
