From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 1 18:19:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124D016A41A for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:19:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD38113C43E for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 18:19:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lB1IJR9o000275; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:19:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20071201121541.0245ddf8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:19:16 -0600 To: "Ross Penner" , "User questions" From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: Diagnosing an unstable machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:19:37 -0000 At 11:42 AM 12/1/2007, Ross Penner wrote: >I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 to run as a fileserver and gateway for my >home. It's been incredibly unstable and I'm trying to figure out why. What >can I do to try and figure out what is causing these crashes? Apparently the >machine just rebooted 20min ago looking at the uptime. They're seemingly >random to me as there is definitely no usage pattern that is obviously >bringing these crashes about. Any help I could get would be greatly >appreciated. The first thing I would do is make sure you are running 6.2 release with the generic kernel. Look at the last log entries prior to a crash for all the logs in /var/log Run any diagnostics you have for the hardware (motherboard, memory, hard drives, NIC.) Check your dmesg hardware found to the supported hardware list. If you are still getting random crashes, post back with your dmesg output included. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.