Re: System freezes on install
s.moyzis wrote: I have a copy of FreeBSD 4.4, when I try to install from the boot CD, or the 2 floppies, the keyboard/system freezes on Kernal Configuration Menu. I also have 2 HD's, an internal 80 Gb for Windows XP, and a 250 Gb external HD for C; backup and a partition for FreeBSD. It's a one year old 'puter. Any ideas? Thank you, Steve Moyzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm not even too sure about that one Have you tried a non-ancient copy of FreeBSD? Ta, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System freezes on install
--- s.moyzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a copy of FreeBSD 4.4, when I try to install from the boot CD, or the 2 floppies, the keyboard/system freezes on Kernal Configuration Menu. I also have 2 HD's, an internal 80 Gb for Windows XP, and a 250 Gb external HD for C; backup and a partition for FreeBSD. It's a one year old 'puter. Any ideas? Thank you, Steve Moyzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only secure computer is one that's unplugged, locked in a safe, and buried 20 feet under the ground in a secret location... and I'm not even too sure about that one ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Steve, The version of FreeBSD 4.4 was release in ~2001. Your hardware is a little newer. You may want to use a more updated version of FreeBSD (IE: FreeBSD 6.2). Here is a link to the download page: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html Regards, Paulette McGee The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system freezes.
Since you say the hardware is all replaced, you should still run hardware diagnostics to verify the new hardware is not also problematic. Also the version of FreeBSD you are running is quite old and beyond its end of life. I would at least update the base OS to 4.11. A freeze like you are seeing is most likely a hardware problem as you see nothing in the logs, but could be from an exploit of some kind. -Derek At 10:56 AM 5/22/2006, Brent Rieck wrote: Hello, I've been having some freeze problems with my managed freebsd server that my host has been less than helpful with; I hope that this is the right place to ask the questions I have. os: freebsd 4.8-stable major applications: apache 1.3.29 + php 4.3.10 , mysql 4.1.18-log, dirvish, riff-backup Machine freezes with nothing written to the logs or console - if you happen to be logged in and running top when it starts to freeze your top session will run completely normally and without lag (spacebar refreshes display, you can resort on size or cpu, etc), but no other processes can start - typing a command into another open shell will not start that program. Until it fully freezes it will echo characters back in the shell - and top will continue to run as normal. Top always shows a load of 0.1, there's always 5MB to 50MB of ram free. All of the hardware has been replaced (motherboard, cpu, ram, power supply, hard drive) I can't make it freeze on demand by replaying the web hits or database queries that occurred before the crash. I am able to make it freeze on demand by slurping down a particular dirvish vault with rsync. The freeze symptoms are the same as the random freeze symptoms (top responds normally, new processes can't start) The random freezes occur whether or not I'm running dirvish on a schedule. The rsync freezing I can work around if needed, the random freezes I cannot. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I might track down the problem? thanks, Brent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system freezes.
At 10:56 AM 5/22/2006, Brent Rieck wrote: Hello, I've been having some freeze problems with my managed freebsd server that my host has been less than helpful with; I hope that this is the right place to ask the questions I have. os: freebsd 4.8-stable major applications: apache 1.3.29 + php 4.3.10 , mysql 4.1.18-log, dirvish, riff-backup Machine freezes with nothing written to the logs or console - if you happen to be logged in and running top when it starts to freeze your top session will run completely normally and without lag (spacebar refreshes display, you can resort on size or cpu, etc), but no other processes can start - typing a command into another open shell will not start that program. Until it fully freezes it will echo characters back in the shell - and top will continue to run as normal. Top always shows a load of 0.1, there's always 5MB to 50MB of ram free. All of the hardware has been replaced (motherboard, cpu, ram, power supply, hard drive) I can't make it freeze on demand by replaying the web hits or database queries that occurred before the crash. I am able to make it freeze on demand by slurping down a particular dirvish vault with rsync. The freeze symptoms are the same as the random freeze symptoms (top responds normally, new processes can't start) The random freezes occur whether or not I'm running dirvish on a schedule. The rsync freezing I can work around if needed, the random freezes I cannot. Does anybody have any suggestions on how I might track down the problem? thanks, Brent This sounds like some sort of IO is not finishing and other processes are getting stuck in a queue behind the process with the stuck IO. I have a similar issue 5.3-6.0 that has been bedeviling me very infrequently with some md file backed images mounted as /dev/md* devices. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system freezes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using freebsd 6.0. After some time my system (router+nfs+ftp) freezes. After 10days I noticed that I cant ping my system. The monitor was kept shutdown so I got no message to screen and pushing any buttons didnt help out to wake up monitor. After reboot I haven't fount anything strange in my system or logs. How to try to find system freeze problem, because it happens at least twice a month. Unfortunately, these kinds of problems are hard to diagnose, because they are usually (not always, but most of the time) caused by hardware problems. So you can check the usual culprits for hardware failure, but obviously if it's working okay at the moment, it can be extremely difficult to figure out where the blame lies. If you can figure out whether there are any patterns to when the system freezes, and even what it was doing at the time, you will have the most important clues for starting with. Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
