From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 2 08:18:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1B37D0F for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 08:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 802291B13 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2013 08:18:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=IPSA+3TG c=1 sm=0 a=s99JP9nkuyUZgdwK7wvnJA==:17 a=CPwA9CjszQEA:10 a=g8DGSEr-gRIA:10 a=6lBslN5KadwA:10 a=LEup1id8KFYA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=oX08kPI8AAAA:8 a=KGjhK52YXX0A:10 a=RIXHdJ6alCwA:10 a=6IlnN0MotG9NJNkdoTsA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=4wfsiePOASQA:10 a=s99JP9nkuyUZgdwK7wvnJA==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 72.132.160.201 Received: from [72.132.160.201] ([72.132.160.201:46082] helo=bsdfull.Belkin) by cdptpa-oedge02.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 67/C2-09582-4124C925; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:17:25 +0000 Message-ID: <529C4213.2010307@sdf.org> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:17:23 -0800 From: cary User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 SeaMonkey/2.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon , dgmm Subject: Re: System reboots ~3am during daily periodic 450.status-security run References: <201312012352.01075.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <201312020027.18293.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <20131202071502.a72c0029.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20131202071502.a72c0029.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:18:33 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 00:27:18 +0000, dgmm wrote: >> On Sunday 01 December 2013 23:52:00 dgmm wrote: >>> My system reboots at 3am when /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security >> >> I've now narrowed it down to: >> >> /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid >> >> ...but have no idea why it might a catastophic crash/reboot. > > A wild guess: File system damage side effect that is being > triggered by something "non-obvious". To make sure this is > _not_ the case, reboot into SUM or via live media and perform > a forced (!) file system check. Note that just in case you > might think "but I run background fsck and preen, that should > be sufficient" - it's not; there are few things that only a > full, _normal_ file system check can detect and repair. > > I'm mentioning this because similar situations have been > discussed on this list, and finally there was some strange > file system defect responsible... > > But also make sure system power is good, and the system does > not become unstable when on load. > > Had a 3 a.m. reboot last week. /usr was corrupted because of my own errors made while compiling ports. $ fsck -t ufs -fv /dev/{usr-partition} -- cary@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org ------------------------------