plateful of crow (was Re: Frequent reboots...)

[Mike Tancsa]

At 12:59 PM 04/10/2003, hg at cally.queue.to wrote:
>In mpc.lists.freebsd.stable, I wrote:
>  :  :  I'm also seeing this disturbing new problem concurrent an install of
>  :  :  4.9-PRERELASE, have not suffered this problem throughout 3.1 and up
>  :  :  through 4.8-RC1.
>
>Coincidental is a lot more accurate.  When the power supply on this
>machine popped and hour ago and filled the room with the sickeningly
>sweet smell of resistor it became pretty clear this was a hardware
>issue.  Too bad I didn't put the plateful of crow on top of the box so
>at least that would've been warmed up before I had to eat it.
>"nevermind"


'plate o crow' like humble pie are very common dishes.  I have had many a 
helping myself..... Problems of this variety are really crappy. Its soooo 
much easier when hardware just fails. Marginal power supplies I find are 
the worst.  I find that enabling core dumps help. If the crash is in a 
different and seemingly random place each time, I will look at hardware 
issues quicker.

         ---Mike