From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 13:45:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8E337B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:45:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com (12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com [12.229.238.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C7E243F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:45:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 32184 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2003 21:18:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bartxp) (192.168.0.2) by 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com with SMTP; 24 Mar 2003 21:18:58 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "'Steve Warwick'" , Subject: RE: Freebsd - restarting itself - followup Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:20:49 -0800 Message-ID: <002b01c2f24b$411269f0$0200a8c0@bartxp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi All,=20 >=20 > Thanks to all of you that replied so promptly to my question.=20 > However I think I failed to outline the situation clearly=20 > enough so with the responses so far in mind... >=20 > Question was: Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down=20 > and restart for no reason? >=20 > - The "new server in question has been running at another=20 > facility without any problems for about 4 months so I am=20 > assuming it is "burned in" and stable. >=20 > - The logs (var/log/messages, /var/log/httpd-error.log) do=20 > not show any obvious issues such as kernel panics, just a=20 > hard restart (/ not dismounted > correctly) >=20 > - As far as I can tell the box has not been exploited -- if=20 > someone we restarting the machine via software then / would=20 > dismount correctly. >=20 Right now I have the exact same thing happening to one machine. It is located offsite (naturally) and about 10 days ago it had a random shutdown (did not come back up) followed by a random reboot a couple days later. It had been running 50-60 days previous. The shutdown occurred just after business hours, the reboot at about 4am. I now have the machine emailing me at specific intervals to try to narrow things down. I have a couple ideas for the both of us. One is that maybe the machine is plugged into a faulty power line, something that is borking the current enough to cause reboots. Another is that maybe the PSU is dying prematurely (3mos old for me). I wish us both good luck. -Derrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message