My system is a IBM T40 laptop, and i has been running FreeBSD for more than two years without ANY problems at all. But a couple of days ago my 7.0 intallation began freezing at random, without any log messages or anything. Same thing happens on a fresh installation of 6.3. Often the screen flickers, and blacks out, as if the screen conection was loose or something, but it isnt. And I cant seem to pinpoint the problem, to any certain area. Though the windows installtion (dual boot) works completely fine. Any suggestions welcome? Regards Skaerris
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:35:51 +0200 Mikkel Sk?rris <trinitor@gmail.com> wrote:> Any suggestions welcome?The usual one: please verify (with memtest86 or similar) that the hardware isn't going bad on you - before doing anything else. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
Hi there, On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:35:51 +0200, "Mikkel Sk?rris" <trinitor@gmail.com> wrote:> My system is a IBM T40 laptop, and i has been running FreeBSD for more > than two years without ANY problems at all. But a couple of days agoThe most obvious one would be "bad hardware".> my 7.0 intallation began freezing at random, without any log messages > or anything. Same thing happens on a fresh installation of 6.3. Often > the screen flickers, and blacks out, as if the screen conection was > loose or something, but it isnt. And I cant seem to pinpoint the > problem, to any certain area. Though the windows installtion (dual > boot) works completely fine. >When you say it "freezes" is the machine still ping'able from another machine in your network? You could start a script like "vmstat 1 >> /tmp/vmstat.log" or similar which runs all the time to get one of the latest log entries. /var/log/messages is really empty when your box freezes? Is X running while this is happening? regards, Marian
Mikkel Sk?rris wrote:> My system is a IBM T40 laptop, and i has been running FreeBSD for more > than two years without ANY problems at all. But a couple of days ago > my 7.0 intallation began freezing at random, without any log messages > or anything. Same thing happens on a fresh installation of 6.3. Often > the screen flickers, and blacks out, as if the screen conection was > loose or something, but it isnt. And I cant seem to pinpoint the > problem, to any certain area. Though the windows installtion (dual > boot) works completely fine.Did you upgrade anything? The base system, X server and/or drivers? I have upgraded my VAIO SZ5MN recently from 7.0-PRERELEASE to 7.0-STABLE around 24th of March and it started to show strange symptoms during work in X11 (usually with the seamonkey browser). The "human interface" got frozen and the only thing that worked was the power-off button (then the machine started to power down orderly, showing strange things on display sometimes). I was thinking this was some ACPI issue but then I figured out that the system was ok when using Intel video card (instead of NVidia - this system has two cards switchable). I have upgraded xorg-server, nvidia and intel drivers to the latest and now it works fine. --Marcin