Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:02:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903232100130.570-100000@zone.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <36F7A65C.B438E07A@tdx.co.uk>
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On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > For about the past week I've been getting spontaneous reboots on my machine. > > As far as I can tell, there's no obvious common connection - most recently my > > box was under load at the time, but the time before that all I did was move > > the mouse (shades of Windows :-) and nothing else much was running. > > > > This does only seem to happen when I'm using the machine - after a few hours, > > a reboot is pretty much guaranteed (sounds like a resource leak of some kind > > to me). Beyond that, I don't know. My kernel and machine config haven't > > changed recently. > > > > Has anyone else been seeing this? What kind of information would help to > > narrow the problem down? > > The sort of thing we're looking for is, Which version of FreeBSD (I'd assume > something -current because you posted to the -current mailing list, but how > current?), what hardware (i.e. CPU type [Intel/AMD/Cyrix]) etc. - how much > memory, what types of hard drive (SCSI vs. IDE) etc. - if you have any 'weird' > hardware in there? > > Also, you say "when I moved the mouse" - does that mean your machine lives in > X-Windows all the time? - Does it crash when it's not running X etc? What type > of video card does your machine have? > > The more detail you can provide (without going too OTT :-) - The more likely > someone will be able to help :-) I have two boxes here tracking 4.0-current, > and so far (looking for a nice piece of wood to touch), I've not seen any > reboots on either for quite a long time (i.e>months) :) > > -Karl > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > He should proviide a full dmesg from bootverbose mode. One thing I've seen is that K6-2's in write allocated mode have big problems. Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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