freeze and crashes

2008-04-25 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Have a issue here. I've been running FreeBSD 6.3 release for about 6 months now without problem. Then last week I purchase another external HD and installed release 7.0. Everything went great for about 3 weeks. Then suddenly my 7.0 started to crash (kde freezing, sudden reboots, etc). The first

Re: freeze and crashes

2008-04-25 Thread Alexander Sack
Hi Alain: Without more details its hard to understand where your hang or freeze is coming from. What I DO suggest is that you build a debug kernel and/or minimally enable the kernel debugger (DDB). Then when the box is frozen you can get into the debugger (CTRL-ALT-ESC), type bt, and post it on

Re: freeze and crashes

2008-04-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 03:01:53PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: Have a issue here. I've been running FreeBSD 6.3 release for about 6 months now without problem. Then last week I purchase another external HD and installed release 7.0. Everything went great for about 3 weeks. Then suddenly my

Re: freeze and crashes

2008-04-25 Thread Alain G. Fabry
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:47:34AM -0400, Alexander Sack wrote: Thanks everybody for the feedback. I'm not going to bring out the champagne yet but I believe I might have found the problem. Replaced my USB cable and now everything seems to be stable again. I'll definitely look into the info