From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 7 5:11:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 05:11:43 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (u57n248.hfx.eastlink.ca [24.222.57.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60B3A37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:11:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from unisys (Windozzze [192.168.8.2]) by matt.MUNICH.v-net.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA05370; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 09:10:54 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from matt@researcher.com) From: "Matt Rudderham" To: "Tobias Roth" , "tanbin" Cc: Subject: RE: mysterious power reset Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 09:09:27 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <20001207131427.A5191@pissarro.unibe.ch> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Also, I don't know if this would affect either of you, but this problem has popped up a few times with some RealTek NICs. I had this problem, swapped the NIC and my box has now been up over 40 days without a hitch. - Matt > > I experienced the very same thing two weeks ago with (then) > FreeBSD 4.1 BETA. > It could not have been a powerfailure, the monitor hanging on the > same outlet > still had power. > > I suspect it is a hardware problem, maybe a bad power supply. > Healthd showed, > that my power supply indeed delivers very unstable values. > > If this does not happen again, I am happy. If it does, the first > thing I'll > do is buy a better power supply. > > Of course that doesn't help you much, but I wanted you to know > that you are > not the only one with this problem. > > > cheers, Tobe > > > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 01:00:09PM +0800, tanbin wrote: > > Since 3 days ago, our freeBSD box has automatically power-down-then-up 3 > > times. (This has happend only 3 times, all in the past 3 days.) > > > > The symptom is neither of a 'reboot' command, nor a power > button activation, > > but a reset button activation (or someone pressing the power > button twice, > > or switching off and on the power point on the wall, which are publicly > > accessible). The last 2 times during the boot i saw "... file system not > > cleanly unmounted. rebooting automatically". > > > > During all these reboots, i did not notice any power failure to > my PC or the > > office lighting. The freebsd box is in the same room, 20 meters > away from > > me. > > > > Is there any software/hardware fault that can trigger a > power-reset? How do > > I confirm the cause? If it's a disgruntled employee, then how > do i track her > > down? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message