Re: 6.0 Release freeze

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 15:00:51 -0500
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:34:31PM +0000, Rafael Caesar Lenzi wrote:
> --- Brian Candler <B.Candler_at_pobox.com> escreveu:
> > Well, that's a content-free problem report, and from what you've
> > written I can only suggest you have faulty hardware. There is 
> > helpful information here: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
> My machine is OK, i run FreeBSD-5.4 and it is very stable.
> 
> > If you really think there's a problem with FreeBSD or FreeBSD-6,
> > then you'd better tell us in detail what kind of machine you have,
> > since believe it or not, a lot of us run FreeBSD and it 
> > doesn't freeze.
> I have Athlon-XP 2400+ with Asus a7n8x-deluxe motherboard, 512mb DDR400
> Kingston, 60gb maxtor 7200rpm harddrive
> 
> When system boot, in random time, just stop, nothing work, no 
> mouse, no keyboard, nothing.  this happens in the versions of 
> FreeBSD-6 beta and rc release.
> 
> In FreeBSD-5.4 it is 100% stable.
> Only few problems with java, that it restart the machine when run
> eclipse and openoffice-2.0 together. I'm have jdk-1.5_1.

"It reboots when I don't tell it to" means it is not "100% stable".
Really, rule out hardware failure first before blaming the OS,
especially since you already have problems on 5.4.

Kris

Received on Wed Nov 16 2005 - 19:00:53 UTC

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