From: Limaunion (limaunionfibertel.com.ar)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 17:57:47 CST

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Josh Black wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm using a generic PC running 3.6 as my firewall. Everything was
> working wonderfully until about 3 weeks ago when it started randomly
> locking up. The entire machine freezes. It doesn't respond to pings,
> the console keyboard doesn't work, nothing. The only thing I can do is
> cycle the power.
>
> So far I've tried swapping out the NICs, the keyboard, even the entire
> PC itself for another spare one I have that runs 3.6 as well. Nothing
> makes a difference.
>
> I have been searching and searching trying to figure out why it's doing
> this, but I can't find any answers. I checked /var/log/messages and
> there are no error messages there. The screen doesn't show a kernel
> panic or anything like that. I'm not even sure where I need to be
> looking. Any ideas at all would be helpful at this point. Thanks!
>

First of all I'm not an OBSD expert, but maybe this could be related to
a hardware (RAM, overheat, etc) malfunction. IMHO you should try running
memtest86 and/or any other OS and see what happens ?
LU

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