Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 16:21:57 -0500 From: E.J.Cerejo <ecerejo@zapo.net> To: nettle@jadeb.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After 170 days uptime, now reboots every few hours Message-ID: <20020518202133.74BBE5D88@server3.safepages.com>
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I had that problem once before it ended up being a power supply problem, changed the power supply and it fixed it but it could be something else with your box. > >Subject: After 170 days uptime, now reboots every few hours > From: Daniel Barron <nettle@jadeb.com> > Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 20:40:40 GMT > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >After someone helped me port DansGuardian from Linux to FreeBSD - I fell in >love with its reliablity and stability and logical filesystem layout. I >found the package management very good as well. About 175 days ago I moved >my mail/dns/web server to a FreeBSD 4.4 from Linux. > >I, essentially, installed FBSD and booted it once and have never had to >reboot or had any problems with it for 170 days. But a couple of days ago >it rebooted without reason. I saw nothing in the messages or any other log. > >A day later and the rebooting came every few hours. Nothing gets logged. >Sometimes it does not reboot, I just can't ssh or imap or web to it. But I >can ping it. > >I always keep the box (cel766 10Gb 256Mb) on a UPS. > >One clue might be that it started happening the day it moved house so I >suspect the HD is on its way out. Still under its warranty as well. > >I am no FBSD expert but I'm used to coding on nix boxes. > >My question is; how do I work out whats wrong? What tools on FBSD can I use >to diagnose a rebooting (with nothing being logged) machine? > >It has no floppy drive so I can't use my usual memory checking and diagnosis >software I usually use. > >-- >Daniel Barron >(Visit http://dansguardian.org/ - True web content filtering for all) > > >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
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