Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 09:22:20 +0000 From: Joe Jacobson <marauder@jaygrp.intelihealth.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Strange reboot saga Message-ID: <199905070922.JAA18409@jaygrp.intelihealth.com>
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Came home a couple of days ago to my wife telling me that my 3.1-STABLE box rebooted on her when she was surfing. (She habitually causes netscape 4.5 to crash, but I thought the box going down was a bit strange.) I find the machine in a powered down state, bring it back up, and log in as myself. I immediately startx, the graphics mode changes, and then it hangs for a couple of seconds, and all of a sudden I'm looking at the boot message from my graphics card. No beep, no panic, just an instantaneous reboot. The machine comes back up, I log in as root, check the logs, (I'm keeping *.debug syslogs), dmesg, nothing. startx (as root), nothing. Log in as myself, startx, everything is great. I chalk it up to an act of Eris. Last night, I built the world, from sources two days ago. Everything went peachy. Recompiled the kernel, rebooted, the box comes up fine. Log in as myself, startx, it reboots. WTF? Watch the box come up again, log in as myself, startx, it reboots again. WTF?!?! I let the machine come up, and then go to bed, thinking I fscked up the installworld or something. Wake this morning, log in as root, check the logs, nothing. startx, works like a champ, logout, login as myself, startx, works great. If anyone is interested, I suppose I could compile a debugging kernel, reboot, and then startx.... -- Joseph Jacobson <jacobson@pobox.com> Finger for PGP #include <std/disclaimer.h> Two men walk into a bar. The third one ducks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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