>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:04:53AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
> > > I may be wrong, but I'm thinking about the power supply.
> > >
> > I just tried another power supply. Lasted 18 hours 15 minutes
> > 14 seconds.
>
> That shows it's not the power supply then.
>
> Components can fail. Solder joints can fail. If one fails, the errors you
> will get will be unpredictable. Common ones are memory faults (which
> something like memtest86 *may* show, but then again may not), but pretty
> much any failed component could cause the device to lock up.
>
> It may have been damaged by static. It may be overheating. It may have a
> latent manufacturing fault. There may be a bad solder joint which means that
> a pin is floating which should be tied high or low - and over a period, a
> few picoamps of current leakage causes it to float from high to low or vice
> versa.
>
> Now, if you get these crashes with FreeBSD but not Linux or OpenBSD, then it
> conceivably could be a bug in the FreeBSD kernel, especially if you're
> running -current or your own modifications. However it's unlikely to crash
> without reporting something down the serial port. On the other hand, if it's
> an intermittent hardware problem, then it's not something which any amount
> of software debugging will help with. Send the unit back and get a
> replacement.
>
> Read the sig11 FAQ for more info, although in this case you're getting a
> complete lockup rather than a sig11, which even more strongly suggests a
> hardware fault.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
Hi Brian,
Thanks alot for the detailed reply.
I haven't tried any other OS, but I guess its something I need to
explore. (I don't look forward to reconfiguring all the software the way I
like it. :-/ ). The kernel is a 5.5-STABLE, my CONFIG is available to anyone
that wants to take a look. I don't THINK I'm doing anything too out of the
norm, but I don't know since I haven't gotten any confirmation.
I contacted Soekris a week ago to start the dialog to send the unit
back, but haven't heard anything back. I have a feeling they'll be alot less
likely to take this one since they've already taken one back and found nothing
wrong with it. I'd go back to it being the CF/OS/etc, but when I received the
replacement unit I pop'd the same CF that was in the previous unit in (I had not
reformatted/reinstalled/nothing), booted, and left it running for several
months without incident.
I have a feeling maybe I just wasn't destined to run a Soekris unit.
Thanks, Tuc
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