hg@cally.queue.to wrote:> In mpc.lists.freebsd.stable, I wrote: > : : I'm also seeing this disturbing new problem concurrent an > : : install of 4.9-PRERELASE, have not suffered this problem > : : throughout 3.1 and up through 4.8-RC1. > > Coincidental is a lot more accurate. When the power supply on this > machine popped and hour ago and filled the room with the sickeningly > sweet smell of resistor it became pretty clear this was a hardware > issue. Too bad I didn't put the plateful of crow on top of the box > so at least that would've been warmed up before I had to eat it. > "nevermind"This is so weird. I went to the latest stable, which turned out to be 4.9 RC-something, and my system started hanging. Then when I went back to 4.8 it kept on hanging. Turned out to be a disk going bad. Maybe 4.9 is haunted, maybe its daemon has gone rogue and started eating hardware. :-) -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com If you hold a controversial position you will draw controversy and its cousins: denunciation, dislike, etc. It's the price you pay. And unlike Tom Daschle, I pay it without a taxpayer-funded security team to keep me safe. -- Peggy Noonan
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003, hg@cally.queue.to wrote:>In mpc.lists.freebsd.stable, gilham@csl.sri.com: > : Maybe 4.9 is haunted, maybe its daemon has gone rogue and started > : eating hardware. :-) > >There must be a bright side to this. Only 1 out of 3 of the machines >at this site were tested by 4.9 and found wanting. Howeer, 2/3 >survived. These are now ready for the "Hardware Certified by >FreeBSD-4.9" labels that someone needs to get printed up.Make sure that this includes a test ``see if fan is turning in power supply''. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``We maintain that the very foundation of our way of life is what we call free enterprise,'' said Cash McCall, "but when one of our citizens show enough free enterprise to pile up a little of that profit, we do our best to make him feel that he ought to be ashamed of himself." -- Cameron Hawley
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:50:48AM -0700, Fred Gilham wrote:>This is so weird. I went to the latest stable, which turned out to be >4.9 RC-something, and my system started hanging. Then when I went >back to 4.8 it kept on hanging. Turned out to be a disk going bad. > >Maybe 4.9 is haunted, maybe its daemon has gone rogue and started >eating hardware. :-)<MeToo>It ate a PCMCIA modem card in my laptop as well. The card was working perfectly until I installed 4.9-PRERELEASE and now it just hangs on boot :-(. I've also got a PCI multi-port serial card that stops the PSU turning on. That was working perfectly until I installed 4.9 - but I suspect something external killed it. Peter