8.0.4 stability issues on new build - Hardware or software?

[joshnerl]

I gave up. I was getting close to my 15 day return period at micro center so I took back the ram, cpu and board. I was very leery of continuing to try and make things work without being able to get my money back or make an easy trade. SO - i bought a new board, cpu and ram - upgraded the BIOS first - and am starting from scratch. The good news is that i know i have a good OS. If (when) i have issues, I'll be sure to post here. I ran memtest overnight and it ran 7 successful passes so I'll check that one off my list.

Appreciate the suggestions - which i may still need.

 

[joshnerl]

Fatal trap 12 continues with a new motherboard (different make/model), new memory (different make/model) and a new CPU (same G620). The only two common components are the drives and the PSU. I've got a new PSU on the way and the drives are under a full scan by WD's drive test utility. It happened after I got over 1TB of data on the volume. I'm starting to wonder if there's a bad spot in a drive or something that keeps getting hit between 1-1.5TB and it's making the writes fail, system hang, etc., etc. I'm no expert, just thinking out loud. I've seen a number of fatal trap 12 issues so I'll keep updating in case someone else is having the same problems.

 

[kashiwagi]

Just googling on "fatal trap 12", I found this>
http://forums.freenas.org/archive/index.php/t-3284.html

Do you have USB3 on both of the motherboards? Might be an idea to try and disabling it.

Another guy had a faulty motherboard>
http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-26710.html

But you already replaced that, so all I can think of is same chips/features used on both motherboards (like the intel USB3 controller) that cause problems. While a faulty PSU can cause problems (and should be replaced immediately so it doesn't actually damage other hardware such as harddrives), I am having a hard time linking that to consistent fatal trap 12 errors......

The final thing could be the harddrives themselves. Someone in this thread ( http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?action=printpage;topic=40769.0 ) suggested it was storage related (either controller or disk), but didn't specify why. Are you getting lots of checksum errors etc on a particular drive?

 

[joshnerl]

kashiwagi, thanks for jumping in. I'm running WD extended tests on each of the drives right now from the "ultimate boot cd". Each drive is running about 2.5 hours so I'll disable USB3 as soon as they're done. I've got a new PSU in the mail so hopefully that will get here tomorrow. I've also got an IBM M1015 on the way so that should help me figure out if it's the onboard SATA controllers, but the randomness of the trap just makes me think it's the PSU or a drive.

I'm starting to grasp at straws so I'm almost hoping something fails pretty soon.

 

[joshnerl]

I'll call this one closed.....again. I received my new PSU and my M1015 off ebay and things are running great. I've moved 8-900gb and haven't had a single twitch out of the box. I guess that means it was the CPU, the motherboard, the memory, the controller OR the PSU. Ugh....at least it works now.