FreeBSD 9.1 freezes randomly on G5

[Krzysztof Parzyszek]

On 1/14/2013 9:41 PM, matt wrote:
>
> The good news is that your machine is aircooled, as far as I can
> tell...only 2.5ghz + was liquid cooled.
> Sorry for assuming the worst.
>
> Thermal calibration is an option in ASD.
> If you google for "Service Source g5 filetype:pdf" you will find your
> service manual, instructions were somewhere around page 92.

Oh, I see.

In the meantime, I found some information about resetting the SMU (by 
pressing a button on the motherboard), and so far the system seems to be 
running ok, even with buildkernel going on.  The a0/a1 sensors indicate 
~50C and they were never more than 5C apart (I'm running a script that 
shows them from sysctl every 10 seconds).

Maybe it was as simple as that...  Keeping fingers crossed.


Just a moment ago "svn checkout" of /usr/ports finished succesfully---an 
operation that would previously invariably lead to a hang, so I'm 
beginning to be optimistic.  :)

Thanks!

-Krzysztof