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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!usenews!beck From: beck@nrlssc.navy.mil (Jeff Becklehimer) Subject: Help! My FreeBSD system has crashed Message-ID: <D0s31u.yo@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil> Sender: news@usenews.nrlssc.navy.mil Nntp-Posting-Host: abyss.nrlssc.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 02:03:27 GMT Lines: 35 Hi all, I've been running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on a pci pentium system for about 5 months with no problems. Earlier this week it began acting really strange: type in a command and immedately get the prompt back without running the command. Try a remote login and connection refused. I assumed that it was just a problem because the system had been up a few weeks without a reboot so I rebooted. When it got to the point where it was to start up the net deamons things went bad. lpd did a core dump, as also did sendmail, inetd, routed. Logging in at the console was difficult because login keeps doing a core dump rather than actually logging in, but if I keep trying I do eventually get to login. I had been mucking around with some code prior to this so I assumed that an essential file to the os had been deleted. I mucked around some and finally decided it was a good time to upgrade to 2.0 I downloaded the 2.0 files and do most of the install up to where I'm loading the manpages. I then get a message like pid ??? uid ??? exited on signal 11 Memory fault and the install dies and throws me into this subshell. When I type exit to the shell nothing happens and I get the prompt back so I reboot and the system crashes while trying to load the deamons. At this point I know I'm in deep and decide it's a hardware error. I then made a DOS boot floppy with Norton's ndiag on the disk. I boot to DOS and run hardware diagnostics all day and it reports no errors. So any advice? Do diagnostics exist for FreeBSD? Any help appreciated. Jeff -- <A HREF="http://www7430.nrlssc.navy.mil/7430/people/beck.html"><em>Jeff Becklehimer</em></A>