On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:28:49PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > ... > This is starting to smell a bit like it may be tied to hardware. If > you have two memory cards, you might want to try swapping them. If > not, maybe let memtest86 run overnight.
There are 2 SODIMMS, yes. So I reverted mjg@'s sys/kern/subr_bus.c patch, rebuilt the kernel, and rebooted ... without issue: I was unable to reproduce the problem. Despite my inability to reproduce it, I went ahead & powered down, swapped the SODIMMs, and rebooted. Still no recurrence. > Yes, this is a total shot in the dark, but this one is really weird > and when I see really weird, I start too look at hardware, especially > memory and power supply. (And this really does not sound like power > supply to me.) > ... The machine is a Dell Precision M4400, and I have extended to hardware warranty. So if I can actually demonstrate a real hardware issue -- in a way that Dell will accept -- I should be able to get it fixed. (I've had a fair bit of practice at that, as the warranty includes accidental damage -- and the time I got flipped off my bicycle while the machine was in a (padded) rucksack qualified.) That said, overnight is when the machine updates its local private mirrors of the FreeBSD SVN repositories, so I can start my daily rebuilds of stable/9 & head fairly early in the morning. (I prefer to get those -- as well as the port-updating -- completed before I get in to work, as I use the laptop to access all of the other machines I use. And I exercise the just-built stable/9 for the rest of the day....) Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Taliban: Evil men with guns afraid of truth from a 14-year old girl. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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