Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 09:15:06 +0500 From: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com (Jerry Kendall) To: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mission Impossible-style crashes on 2.1.0 Message-ID: <9512041415.AA28479.gonzo@vmicls.com>
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> I have several systems (6) that I recently upgraded to 2.1.0-RELEASE. > These systems all ran 2.0.5 previously, and had no crashes in at > least the previous 90 days (very nice). > > However, in the seven days since upgrading to 2.1.0, the same hardware > has experienced an average of 10 unexpected reboots, or just over > one a day. The systems with more load (news vs no news) crash more often. Frank, I had a similar problem with 2.0.5R. My situation was all based on my systems rebooting at 02:01:00 EVERY single day. After much looking around, I found that this was when /etc/security was being run via cron. I could run it manually and it was OK. If cron ran it, the system would silently reboot. It would reboot when it tried the check my CDROM. I realize that your problem is not with CDROM drives, but maybe having a CDROM drive is only the catalyst for a bigger problem that my system no longer exhibits due to some other change that I made. Try to see if it happens at the same time every day or perhaps in some sequence. If so, check out the /etc/crontab file to see if there is something being started when the system reboots. Hope this helps.... Jerry
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