From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 19 18:36: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from joe.halenet.com.au (joe.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DCC937B636 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:35:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timbo@halenet.com.au) Received: from temp19 (temp19.halenet.com.au [203.37.141.119]) by joe.halenet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA12873; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:46:29 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from timbo@halenet.com.au) Message-ID: <00d501bfda58$5ca8b240$778d25cb@halenet.com.au> From: "Tim McCullagh" To: "Simon" , References: <200006200019.SAA55629@mail.fpsn.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 Rebooting itself Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:39:20 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thanks for the reply Simon, No I haven't touched the kernel. I left it as a standard generic kernel for the time being. On one of the machines it has been operating for months without any problems until I did a complete install and trashed my previous 3.4 install. The rebooting has only started since the installation of FreeBSD 4.0 Originally I was thinking it was related to hardware myself, but since I have the same thing happening on multiple different config machines then I was wondering if it was infact that I hadn't configured my install properly Thanks again regards Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon" To: ; "Tim McCullagh" Sent: Tuesday, 20 June 2000 11:24 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 Rebooting itself Hi, I'm not sure what exactly is going on with your machines, but I had the same problem running 3.3-R and 3.4-R on two different machines with the same RAM. Once we replaced the RAM, reboots stopped. Make sure you use quality RAM. If all failes, turn on kernel dump and see if you can take it from there. Usually, hardware is to blame for reboots. When kernel feels that the system is flaky and about to crash, it reboots it instead. PS: did you compile custom kernel? -Simon On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:16:04 +1000, Tim McCullagh wrote: >Hi All > >I have installed FreeBSD 4.0 on 3 machines a P2 a P3 and a pentium 166. >On each of these machines the system reboots itself between 1 and 3 days and >there is no reference or error message in /var/log/messages, other than the >"WARNING: / was not properly dismounted " . Originally I suspected a >hardware incompatability but on 3 different machines now makes me wonder >whether it is a configuration error on my part. > >Is or has anyone else had a similar problem? > > >regards > >Tim > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message