Server crashes

[Pieter de Goeje]

On Sunday 23 December 2007, Monah Baki wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Thing is no error pops up on screen during the make buildinstall, computer
> just freezes and I have to reboot.

Can you still ping your computer? Also, if you're on the first terminal (not 
in X) do you see any messages while or before your computer freezes?

>
> Isn't there any command that might help figuring if any hardware is acting
> flaky?

You could try to run memtest86 (http://www.memtest.org/). It will detect 
memory errors.

>
>
> uname -a
>
> storm.whywire.com 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Oct 31
> 08:02:11 EDT 2007     mbaki at storm.whywire.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>  i386