Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:45:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Seth Murray <smurray@comboard.com> Cc: freeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots, Clock thrown off Message-ID: <20020821081556.GK78608@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <7662DB07-B4CB-11D6-95E8-0003936F0B0A@comboard.com> References: <7662DB07-B4CB-11D6-95E8-0003936F0B0A@comboard.com>
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On Tuesday, 20 August 2002 at 23:01:41 -0700, Seth Murray wrote: > Our new FBSD 4.6 server is spontaneously rebooting a couple times a day. > No related log entries -- just resets without warnings or messages. Are you getting any processes core dumping at unrelated times? > When it powers back up, the CMOS clock is still correct, but the > system clock is off by (apparently) random amounts -- usually less > than 12 hours. I don't understand this. The system clock gets reloaded from the system clock. Is the time zone file changed? > Running 4.6-Release. TYAN S2462 board with dual AMD 1666MHz > processors. All hardware is new. Not finding anything telling in > any of the logs, I'm beginning to guess at a power supply or board > level problem. We're running current releases of apache mod_ssl, > postgresql, mod_php. Nothing else fancy. No unusual cron stuff. Hmm. We've seen problems related to (but probably not caused by) AMD processors in the past. I have one here (850 MHz Duron) which won't run 4.6 reliably. Have you tried other versions of FreeBSD? Are you getting messages about IDE problems? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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