On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:03:15PM +0100, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:35:07AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > so, what to try next?
> > 
> > Hum. FYI, I had a U5/400Mhz panicing in weird ways. initially I suspected
> > memory, but the panic stopped when I reseated the CPU module. It's stable
> > since then (it's building binary packages). But I also had wierd messages
> > from the OFW, such as "RED state exeption".
> 
> No "RED state" errors here, and the machine hasn't been physically moved
> recently.  So if it's CPU/RAM, then something is going bad :-/ - I have
> a spare CPU module that I could test with, but I'm reluctant to fiddle
> with these, as I've managed to badly bend a few socket pins when I last
> changed one... 
> 
> OTOH the fact that it always happens in the middle of the night *could*
> be related to temperature or moisture changes (it's not an air-conditioned
> machine room, just a room in the basement).  Hmmm.  I don't hope that it's 
> something ugly like this...

In my case, it was in a air-conditioned machine room, and was not moved.
It started failing after 2 years of good work (it was running solaris).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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