On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:04:53AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > I may be wrong, but I'm thinking about the power supply. > > > I just tried another power supply. Lasted 18 hours 15 minutes > 14 seconds.
That shows it's not the power supply then. Components can fail. Solder joints can fail. If one fails, the errors you will get will be unpredictable. Common ones are memory faults (which something like memtest86 *may* show, but then again may not), but pretty much any failed component could cause the device to lock up. It may have been damaged by static. It may be overheating. It may have a latent manufacturing fault. There may be a bad solder joint which means that a pin is floating which should be tied high or low - and over a period, a few picoamps of current leakage causes it to float from high to low or vice versa. Now, if you get these crashes with FreeBSD but not Linux or OpenBSD, then it conceivably could be a bug in the FreeBSD kernel, especially if you're running -current or your own modifications. However it's unlikely to crash without reporting something down the serial port. On the other hand, if it's an intermittent hardware problem, then it's not something which any amount of software debugging will help with. Send the unit back and get a replacement. Read the sig11 FAQ for more info, although in this case you're getting a complete lockup rather than a sig11, which even more strongly suggests a hardware fault. Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
