From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 17 13:42:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A525106566C for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:42:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0C98FC17 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 13:42:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so2730104bwz.43 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 06:42:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=1Z3dGMQqwlc+2d7a2URnIkAISvjACsOvp+PybI3yFzk=; b=SRApfHX0WOTyFcOw8xhWdhm0Wm3QBXLsSghCspHa6eCMmkPFWWAoI43+QZt2pARsb+ GWfs4f7dTv0cmRxboJm+qEpcmFHE8NPER/pk5CB/svbDfim1ye2I7V0DYSAX/RO3xE4D vi6dhdP/2zgFmOjp6Tm8h0s2FkOgkCZC/2svY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=e7uwbfQDfMy5HK39UeCj9GMKPiEqHmrvLJJSSs1qXUVK5/ZtMRpiKh5Ca4E4VfVzXG rvxd8TvEINdufgiXHxLNB+rsgZnUkUIqTxzZV6rhbgLVF9cjiP+mKQqUdfraR7TCbj0k cbNPDc5+BWRAj8E64zXLYGcfsGuDZ8qlx9zbU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.52.72 with SMTP id h8mr5593708bkg.30.1242567725708; Sun, 17 May 2009 06:42:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090517131340.GD2706@mini.local> References: <20090517110657.GC2706@mini.local> <4ad871310905170439o678e2a9dp1c09be26ed9afc75@mail.gmail.com> <20090517131340.GD2706@mini.local> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:42:05 -0400 Message-ID: From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Doug Lee , Glen Barber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: 4.11 panic every 23 hours 55 minutes or so X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:42:07 -0000 On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Doug Lee wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 07:39:46AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Doug Lee wrote: > > > One of the weirder things I've seen in a while here... > > > > > > OS: FreeBSD 4.11 (yeah I know, old, but generally stable) > > > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz > > > real memory ?= 536608768 (524032K bytes) > > > Hds: IDE > > > > > > Do you by chance have the kernel built with debugging enabled? > > Afraid not, nor much space in / for that. I partitioned this system > before /modules arrived, and I barely have enough space in / now > (about 3 meg free). That shouldn't affect this issue though; I do > have separate /usr, /var, and /tmp. I do mount /tmp and /var/run via > MFS. > > > > Problem: ?Ever since a suspitious power outage (I say suspitious > > > because we think a surge was also involved), this box has been > > > exhibiting kernel panics about every 23 hours 55 minutes, give or > > > take about 4 minutes either way. ?Obviously hardware is suspect, > > > and hopefully in line for upgrade; but as FreeBSD has always proven > > > so stable for me, I'm curious what on earth could cause this sort > > > of regular panic? > > > > > > It's not time of day; if I reboot at 2:00 AM, 3:55 PM, or any other > > > time, it's 23:55 or so later I get a panic, whenever that may be. > > > I think this rules out cron jobs, external attacks, and load-based > > > issues. > > > > > > Perhaps a bad CMOS battery causing the system time to become > > corrupted? (I know it's a long shot...) > > Interesting idea, though I'd be surprised since I think the system > time is set via ntpd, is it not? `date' seems to recover nicely every > time anyway. A power surge could indeed play with CMOS though... but > how would I test for this while the system is running? > > -- > Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org > SSB BART Group doug.lee@ssbbartgroup.com > http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly." > --Sir William G. Benham > Another problem may be as follows : I am living an area nearby to industrial factories . When they are started or stopped . they are causing important fluctuation in my home current in such a way that even uninterruptible power supplies are becoming not able to balance their effects . Such an effect may be present in your area . In that hour regularly such a system may start and cause a current fluctuation that it may boot your computer(s) . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk