Richard Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > > I am experiencing the same crashes on my new machine (ATA100 IDE > > drive): they appeared when I noticed that I had forgotten to use > > soft-updates. After I have turned them on, I experienced the first > > crash in 15 minutes. Then I get one every two days, when doing > > heavy disk IOs. I got a crash 10 minutes ago when the machine was > > unattended though (and not doing important disk IOs), and could > > see a "panic" message on the console. Unfortunately, I hadn't > > enough free space in /var/crash to save the kernel. > > > > Do you people use soft-updates? From my experience on this > > problem, I assume that either soft-updates or the ATA driver may > > be causing those spontanous reboots. > > Yes I use soft-updates. The peculiar thing aboout my crash though is that > there was no panic; the machine just froze and the screen went blank, so > maybe I was hit by a different problem. > > -Richard
Yeah, I'm using soft updates too. My crashes are generally the same as Richards - no panic, just a freeze. Except my screen doesn't go blank. -- Brady Montz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
