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Date:      Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:30:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Dowdal <jdowdal@destiny.erols.com>
To:        Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spontaneous reboots
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902091829050.73300-100000@destiny.erols.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902092332180.1705-100000@gold.amis.net>

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Do you have DDB enabled?  YOur spontaneous reboots might be panics with
the messages hidden "behind" xwindows so you never see them.  If you turn
on DDB, it will crash to the debugger instead of just reboot.

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote:

> I have another idea. I looked through old (closed) PR's and stumbled upon
> PR 376 titled "tcpdump seems to cause spontaneous reboots".
> 
> I noticed that the bug was caused by bpfilter. Until now I received three
> kernel config files from people experiencing spontaneous reboots and all
> three had bpfilter enabled. I also have bpfilter. That makes us four.
> 
> I am compiling a kernel without bpfilter to see my reboots disappear.
> 
> Blaz Zupan, blaz@medinet.si, http://home.amis.net/blaz
> Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
> 
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