Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:50:49 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Greg Quinlan <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: reboot by itself??!! Message-ID: <3721E859.44D26379@newsguy.com> References: <01be8e5b$6acadb40$0101a8c0@greg>
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Greg Quinlan wrote: > > My machine reboots aswell but I wasn't doing any washing! > I don't have any pets or plants either! > > That eliminates a couple of possibilities! > > It does not appear to be load based! > My server has 5 10/100Mb xl? cards does just about everything on the > network, and is heavily loaded. > (It is more likely to reboot when it's idle.) > > I have switched on verbose logging for the firewall. > > I have compiled a new kernel with > options "ICMP_BANDLIM" > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE > > Now I'll wait! Just for the sake of mentioning it, there is a PR open related to seemingly random reboots which were traced to: On a Login: prompt, if some characters are typed but no <enter> is pressed, and the screen saver is then activated, upon pressing a key the system will panic/reboot. I have not been able to reproduce the problem myself. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Well, Windows works, using a loose definition of 'works'..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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