From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 15:43:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F34337B739 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA83714; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:42:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 18:42:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Andy Farkas Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Overnight lobotomy? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Andy Farkas wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Chris Hill wrote: > > > Having done it, I'd like to find out *why* it hung, but I'm not sure where > > to look; the logs are silent on this point. > > Quite possibly a power glitch. You didn't mention "UPS" anywhere... Right, I should have. The system has been on a UPS all this time. We had severe thunderstorms the day before, and there were multiple power hits that day, lasting less than a second each. But this was several hours prior to the hang (the logs *do* tell me that the machine ran its 2am cron stuff without incident). -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [1] Bus error netscape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message