I have seen those symptoms on three different machines over the years, and all of them were hardware failures - RAM on one of them, power supply on another, and an old consumer-grade PCI network card on the third. (Most of the pfSense machines I support are running low-end salvaged hardware, so in my case it was not unexpected.)
The first two happened with no visible symptoms on the screen, but the network card failure showed errors on a monitor plugged into the machine though not in dmesg or any logs. Moshe On Sep 1, 2016 5:53 PM, "Todd Russell" <[email protected]> wrote: > Everything had been fine for ages. Had a hard lock Tuesday before lunch... > couldn't ping it, no response at physical kb, had to hard reboot it. > > Came back late that night to apply 2.3.2 update. Had another hard lock > today a little after noon. Was looking into it and getting set up to ssh in > from home so I could plan to reboot every night until after Labor Day trip > when I would look further into it. Then got another hard lock while trying > to ssh in around 3:30. > > Coming back tonight to do memtest, SpinRite on the SSD, etc..., but I was > wondering if anyone has any ideas of anything that might cause hard locks > aside from hardware problems? If this was linux, I would blame it on > systemd, but I don't know if FreeBSD would ever hard lock outside of > hardware issues. > > The hardware is a SuperMicro Atom board I bought from iXSystems installed > to a Samsung 850 Pro with 8GB ECC RAM. > > I know this isn't much to go on, and I am not expecting help with > troubleshooting, but there was nothing in system logs or dmesg that looked > out of place after the first 2. Mostly I am curious if others have ever > seen hard locks happen in FreeBSD and what caused them in their experience. > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Peace, > Todd Russell > Director of IT and Webmaster > Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College > 985-867-2266 > 985-789-4319 > > Please consider helping Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College recover > from the devastating flood waters that overtook our campus on March 11, > 2016. > http://helptheabbey.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://saintjosephabbey.com > > For IT Requests, please submit a ticket at: > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e3PCRvnEVNU5-rVFolf9zivA9- > m41Nj07eDjjCtFwpI/viewform?usp=send_form#start=invite > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
