On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:26:39PM +0000, Steve Doyle wrote:
> 
> Evening,
> 
> 	I'm having a problem with the machine that I'd really appreciate
> some assistance with. From time to time, normally after a couple of
> weeks uptime, something seems to be killing the box stone dead without
> any warning, I've been through the logfiles after the last crash and
> so far it's turned up nothing that would shed some light on the cause.
> 

Can you enter ddb? <Stop-A> from keyboard or 'break' from serial console.
If you can, please post output from 't' and 'ps' commands.

> Apart from this issue I really can't fault the machine at all.
> 
> The box would do a similar thing while the kernel was 1.6.1, but I built
> a current (1.6ZG) kernel on recommendation (though the userland is still
> the standard 1.6.1 ) which I'd hoped would cure the problem.
> 
> I'm sorry I can't give any further information than this at present
> but any suggestions are welcome.
> 

I'd try more recent -current, there was similarly appearing problem fixed.

	Andrey