I've been running OpenBSD for various things probably since somewhere
around version 3.4 or 3.5. One thing that has always been a
constant...
If you have random unexplainable crashes, freezes, lockups, dumps to a
ddb prompt that don't involve a kernel crash or known exploit, it's
99% likely you have some bad hardware.
It may not always be apparent; not too long ago I had a shiny sparkly
Dell Poweredge 2850 router with all the trimmings that seemed just
fine, but every now and then for no good reason it'd crash to a ddb
prompt....no kernel problems, nothing to indicate anything bad had
happened, no possible exploits. No reason for the crashes that I
could see; they'd happen at 3:00am when we were passing 30Mb of
traffic, or in the middle of the day when passing 250Mb. You never
knew when it'd take a dump; I had it run for weeks at a clip smoothly,
and had it dump 3 times in a day.
Probably 3 months after this begin happening, the major alarm orange
hardware light on the box started flashing. I had to replace all the
RAM modules (2 GB). They'd all gone south.
The same box has now been stable for over a year with the same install.
Based on your dmesg, that's a truly ancient box anyway. An AMD-K6
with a BIOS revision of January of 2000? Save yourself some headaches
and just toss it. PC's are cheap. Time is what's expensive.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm attempting to install 4.3-release on an old compac but I'm getting
> random freezes shortly after boot. The most it has stayed up is about
> 1/2 hour, usually it'll die within a few minutes, sometimes it'll die
> during boot - once it even failed during the install process. The only
> way to recover is to kill the power.
>
> I'm at a loss, there is nothing in the logs, no messages, I've
> memtested the ram, swapped out the ram, surface scanned the disk,
> swapped out the disk, swapped out the nic, run without a nic, disabled
> acpi ... I cant think of anything else to try.
> I've reinstalled the original windows disk, and tried it with an old
> freebsd insaller I had lying around and they both work just fine.
> I'm not using X.
> My next step would be to try -stable or -current, but I dont have much
> faith.
>
> If anybody could shed any light or suggest further tests or ... anything
> I'd be very gratefull.
>
>
> paul
>
>
>
> OpenBSD 4.3 (GENERIC) #698: Wed Mar 12 11:07:05 MDT 2008
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor ("AuthenticAMD" 586-class) 534 MHz
> cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,PGE,MMX
> real mem = 125399040 (119MB)
> avail mem = 113070080 (107MB)
> mainbus0 at root
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 01/28/00, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfa130,
> SMBIOS rev. 2.1 @ 0xfc660 (12 entries)
> bios0: vendor Compaq version "686S4" date 01/28/2000
> bios0: Compaq Compaq PC
> acpi0 at bios0: rev 0
> acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT
> acpi0: wakeup devices PBTN(S1) PCI0(S1) USB1(S1) USB0(S1)
> acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 32 bits
> acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
> acpicpu0 at acpi0: C2
> acpibtn0 at acpi0: PBTN
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x10000 0xec000/0x4000!
> cpu0 at mainbus0
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8501" rev 0x03
> agp0 at pchb0: v2, aperture at 0x50000000, size 0x10000000
> ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8501 AGP" rev 0x00
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Trident CyberBlade i7" rev 0x5c
> wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "VIA VT82C686 ISA" rev 0x14
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA66,
> channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to
> compatibility
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL EX3.2A>
> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 3078MB, 6303935 sectors
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
> pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives)
> uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x06: irq 11
> uhci1 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x06: irq 11
> viaenv0 at pci0 dev 7 function 4 "VIA VT82C686 SMBus" rev 0x10: HWM
> disabled: failed to map PM I/O space
> rl0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 3, address
> 00:c0:a8:7b:47:c8
> rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal PHY
> esa0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "ESS ES1989" rev 0x10: irq 5
> ac97: codec id 0x45838308 (ESS Technology ES1921)
> ac97: codec features 20 bit DAC, 20 bit ADC, ESS Technology
> audio0 at esa0
> isa0 at pcib0
> isadma0 at isa0
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
> wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> spkr0 at pcppi0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
> usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0 at usb0 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
> usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1 at usb1 "VIA UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
> biomask ed45 netmask ed4d ttymask ffcf
> mtrr: K6-family MTRR support (2 registers)
> softraid0 at root
> root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
