Re: My kernel panics suck

2010-09-08 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* William D. Colburn (Schlake) [100702 12:19] wrote: > I got my new 8-stable system up, and now I just have recurrent disk > controller failures. The machine can't stay more than about ten > minutes before it panics into a hung kernel, or simple reboots. > Unfortunately, I know the root cause of

Re: My kernel panics suck

2010-07-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:40 PM, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: >> Ripple or dirty power coming from a UPS -- because not all of them clean >> things up -- could cause all sorts of chaos hardware-wise too, and in >> some cases permane

Re: My kernel panics suck

2010-07-02 Thread William D. Colburn (Schlake)
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Ripple or dirty power coming from a UPS -- because not all of them clean > things up -- could cause all sorts of chaos hardware-wise too, and in > some cases permanent damage. The UPS is actually my biggest suspect. It was an expensive one

Re: My kernel panics suck

2010-07-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 07:35:14PM -0400, jhell wrote: > On 07/02/2010 16:29, C. P. Ghost wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, William D. Colburn (Schlake) > > wrote: > >> I got my new 8-stable system up, and now I just have recurrent disk > >> controller failures. The machine can't stay mo

Re: My kernel panics suck

2010-07-02 Thread jhell
On 07/02/2010 16:29, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, William D. Colburn (Schlake) > wrote: >> I got my new 8-stable system up, and now I just have recurrent disk >> controller failures. The machine can't stay more than about ten >> minutes before it panics into a hung kernel,

Re: My kernel panics suck

2010-07-02 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, William D. Colburn (Schlake) wrote: > I got my new 8-stable system up, and now I just have recurrent disk > controller failures.  The machine can't stay more than about ten > minutes before it panics into a hung kernel, or simple reboots. > Unfortunately, I know the

My kernel panics suck

2010-07-02 Thread William D. Colburn (Schlake)
I got my new 8-stable system up, and now I just have recurrent disk controller failures. The machine can't stay more than about ten minutes before it panics into a hung kernel, or simple reboots. Unfortunately, I know the root cause of the panics. If my computer is sitting on the table, then the