From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 22 12:17:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 12:17:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF67337B400 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 12:17:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.12.232]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001222201733.ZOGF10171.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Fri, 22 Dec 2000 20:17:33 +0000 Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 20:21:22 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: Mike Ruhl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: randomness In-Reply-To: <3A43B5C0.93449A19@network-alchemy.com> 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 Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Mike Ruhl wrote: > Here are the symptoms: > > 1) Random reboots. There are no messages in /var/log/messages or > dmesg. The machine just reboots. > > 2) xterms go away for no apperent reason (serveral times over the last > several days). If there is a core file somewhere, I can't find it. > > 3) xmms goes away for no apperent reason (twice so far). > > Could this be an indication of a hardware failure? Quite possibly. Check the logs for programs which caused a segmentation fault; usual suspect is bad RAM. Try removing some of the RAM and seeing if the problem persists. G "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message