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Date:      Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:04:37 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ron Tarrant <rtarrant@sympatico.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spontanious Reset While Compiling Kernel
Message-ID:  <20011030180437.A15418@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BDF1D9C.70207@sympatico.ca>; from rtarrant@sympatico.ca on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:37:32PM -0500
References:  <3BDF1D9C.70207@sympatico.ca>

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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 04:37:32PM -0500, Ron Tarrant wrote:

> What happens is, part way through compiling the kernel, the computer=20
> spontaneously resets and starts a POST. If, after the reboot is=20
> finished, I restart 'make', it picks up where it left off, then=20
> spontaneously resets again after a while. I wasn't keeping a very close=
=20
> eye on it, but if that's an issue, I'll gladly do it again to see where=
=20
> it bombs. I originally thought it might be XFree86 4.1.0 causing the=20
> problem, but I tried starting the compile from tty1 and got the same=20
> results.

Spontaneous reboots under system load almost always mean hardware
problems.

kris

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