From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 22:55:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA11277 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:55:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA11269 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA13233; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:53:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 22:53:29 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: David Greenman cc: Kevin Day , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote power cycle In-Reply-To: <199801080135.RAA18602@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, David Greenman wrote: > >I'm also using the serial console to monitor machines, and remotely reboot > >them when necessary. (I'm working on using X10 stuff to actually cycle power > >for me) > > > >However, for now, even when the serial console is still running, but the > >machine is mostly dead, I can never get reboot to work... It tells me some > >processess would not die, ps axl advised - then it locks up. > > That's very strange and not a problem that I've seen. I've seen it, and more than once. It was the result of a hard drive (scsi) running too hot, and getting very close to quitting. Guess it did quit! But not permanently. Annelise > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project >