Re: Strange system behavior

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I have a new machine in my farm, and it is exhibiting some very strange 
> behavior.

Just to summarize, I think I've ruled out memory, having swapped memory 
without changing the symptoms.  I've also include both the original and 
new memory at the same time, and the problem remains, although it now 
seems to be "stuck" on a different invocation of nbmandoc!

Someone suggested that maybe there was a corrupt library somewhere, so I 
mounted my build directory (via nfs) and did a 'build.sh install=/' but 
that didn't help, either.

Thinking that maybe that command used the same corrupt library, I burned 
a new install cd.  Funny, the internal CD drive on the machine didn't 
seem to work (BIOS said "Install a bootable media and press a key" or 
similar!).  I have a USB2 CD/DVD drive available, and the BIOS was able 
to boot that, but NetBSD image on the CD never gets started.

So I'm going to remove the internal CD drive in hopes that it is having 
some sort of problem.  If that doesn't work, I'll start replacing other 
components, in order from least to most expensive:  power supply, 
motherboard, and finally CPU.


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