Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:05:40 +0000 From: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <31782A54.41C67EA6@portal.ca>
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Hi there, FreeBSD guru(s): Firstly, thanks for a really great product (FreeBSD)! Oh, what the heck--thanks for a really great suite of products (BSDI, FreeBSD, NetBSD. . .) :-) I posted a message on the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc newsgroup, but haven't received any replies yet, so I thought I'd post a message here, too. Almost every morning (with literally one or two exceptions), for about the last four or five days, when I check my FreeBSD box, it has rebooted itself. I checked the obvious (power), but that wasn't the problem. Instead, after some testing, I've discovered that it may be a matter of memory (Signal 11) errors which aren't given the chance to generate core dumps, but instead reboot the machine. I can reproduce one of the errors. If I log in as one of my users who is on group wheel, and I run xdtm (from the ports collection), the program core-dumps (signal 11). If I run the same command as root, it runs perfectly for a while, then core-dumps, too. Okay, it could be a bad executable or buggy code, so not really serious. Serious, however, are the reboot problems, which are occurring with /etc/daily (run by cron at 02:00), which I have not (yet) modified from its original form. Specifically, I think the problem is with find. >From time to time, even when I perform a find manually (though more rarely by this method than by cron)--say, for example, find / -name text.txt -print the machine will pause for a moment or two, and then reboot itself. While, in principle, I'm not unwilling to consider the possibility of faulty RAM or a faulty motherboard, I believe this is unlikely, since I am also running Windoze 95 on the same machine with a slew of (some really demanding, processor & FPU-wise) applications, and I receive no errors. The machine is a Gateway 2000, with Intel Pentium 120 AMI BIOS 16MB EDO RAM STB Trio 64V+ video card (PCI) IDE Western Digital Caviar 21200 1.2GB hard disk Wearnes 6X IDE CD-ROM drive Telepath 28.8 Fax Modem 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive PS/2-style mouse 104-key keyboard Any ideas? With the exception of the occasional Signal 11 error, the machine is running fine, as is BSD, and I *really love* this operating system, and would love to see it run with stability. Is there anything in -STABLE or -CURRENT you think might solve my problems? Thanks in advance. -- Christoff Snijders hjcs@portal.ca
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