I've seen a freeze from using a wireless module while the wireless device was powered on (in a notebook being templated). Our solution on the Dell D620 was to ensure the antenae switch was powered off prior to imaging. Oddly enough, even with that powered off, we were still able to grab the MAC address for our host management database, so that was good.
Whatever is the cause, I'm pretty certain it is hardware or kernel+hardware related and unlikely to do with udpcast program itself. Anything that is erratic in how it fails (e.g. measure the number of minutes into the session, or at what step in boot up) points to pure hardware failure.
You could likely induce the same lock up by booting by PXE and not starting the udpcast session. Just leave it for an hour and see if it is stable.
--Donald Teed
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Gunner Poulsen wrote:
Dear friends - I have a problem.
My UDP-cast is working very vell from PXE (that's not the problem). The problem is that after a while 2 - 30 GB it surdently freezes and I can't get in touch with the mashine via the keyboard or anything. And the cloning-proces stops. I worked at is the whole night the other day (to 4 morning), but it keeps doing it. First I used a version 2 month old, then I updatet to the newest at that time (20070306) but is kept apering. I use no command-line-options and it is a switch with 20 mashines.
Any sugestions about what could be wrong?
Med venlig hilsen Gunner Poulsen Lærer på http://www.lyngbjerggaardskolen.dk Magnus' far!
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