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From: Grzegorz Czaplinski <gregory@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
To: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Spontaneous rebooting problems
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:19:07AM +0000, David Goddard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the course of one week, we have had three FreeBSD stable boxes just
> reboot on us and I'm trying to work out what's going wrong.  The reboots
> were at different times of day with machines at different physical
> locations, so I don't believe power outages were involved (although
> we're looking into any causes along those lines).
> 
> I guess there may be a degree of concidence involved, but I really would
> like to see if there's any common factor here.
> 
> The messages log show nothing before the reboot:
> 
> [...]
> Dec 16 03:59:00 cassium /kernel: ipfw: Entry 306 cleared.
> Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD
> Project.
> Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986,
> 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,1994
> [...]
> Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> 
> One of the machines was built from 4.2 stable sources cvsupped Nov 23 at
> about 18:00 GMT, the others are similar.
> 
> I don't believe any of the machines were particularly heavily loaded at
> the time.  At least one of them had no (legitimately) logged on users.
> 
> Any clues to what happened or pointers to how I can look into this
> further myself are greatly appreciated...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
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I had a problem with continuous rebooting of the server. 
Taking softupdates off on all filesystems resolved the problem.
Do you have such feature on? 
I hope this helps.
 Best regards
 	gregory
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