Seeing system-lockups on recent current

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:52 PM +0200 10/10/03, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com> writes:
>>  On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  > > For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating
>  > > time with my freebsd-current/i386 system.  It is a dual
>  > > Athlon system.  [...]
>
>  > It would be useful to isolate exactly what day the problem
>  > started occuring.
>
>I experienced similar problems on a dual Athlon system (MSI K7D
>Master-L motherboard, AMD 760MPX chipset, dual Athlon MP 2200+)
>which is barely a couple of months old.  I ended up reverting
>to RELENG_5_1.
>With -CURRENT, both UP and SMP kernels will crash with symptoms
>which suggest hardware trouble.  With RELENG_5_1, UP is rock
>solid (knock on wood) while SMP crashes within minutes of booting.

Just to follow up on this...

My symptoms were different, in that I have problems with both
UP and SMP (although UP did seem more stable).  I also tried a
clean install of 5.1-RELEASE (right off the CD's), and that
would also hang up.  Since I *know* this machine had been
running fine back at the time of 5.1-release, this was pretty
significant.

I took the PC back to the place I got it from, and they ran
some kind of diagnostics on it and said the motherboard is
bad.  They're replacing the motherboard.  So, unless I have
something more to say when I get that back, it looks pretty
likely that my headaches were hardware-related.  (my machine
also has a different components than des's machine)

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu