From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 18 19:39:28 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 19:39:25 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from krel.org (mail.krel.org [216.141.123.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6047437B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from shark [160.79.102.254] by krel.org (SMTPD32-6.05) id A8F38E200F8; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:41:39 -0500 Message-ID: <003701c0696d$42272fb0$0100a8c0@krel.org> From: "Ilya" To: References: <3A3C148B.9B08542D@acm.org> <20001218174710.D48643@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> Subject: Re: Spontaneous rebooting problems Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:39:14 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i started to expirience the same thing. random reboots for no reason.... i have no softupdates in kernel. the box was woking fine with current hardware for over a year now. i noticed the reboots just last week, but the box was in 4.2 stabel from very start... it is on ups... i am doing cvsup now, but if anyone has more ideas pls let me know. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grzegorz Czaplinski" To: "David Goddard" Cc: Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Spontaneous rebooting problems > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:19:07AM +0000, David Goddard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In the course of one week, we have had three FreeBSD stable boxes just > > reboot on us and I'm trying to work out what's going wrong. The reboots > > were at different times of day with machines at different physical > > locations, so I don't believe power outages were involved (although > > we're looking into any causes along those lines). > > > > I guess there may be a degree of concidence involved, but I really would > > like to see if there's any common factor here. > > > > The messages log show nothing before the reboot: > > > > [...] > > Dec 16 03:59:00 cassium /kernel: ipfw: Entry 306 cleared. > > Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD > > Project. > > Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, > > 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,1994 > > [...] > > Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > > > One of the machines was built from 4.2 stable sources cvsupped Nov 23 at > > about 18:00 GMT, the others are similar. > > > > I don't believe any of the machines were particularly heavily loaded at > > the time. At least one of them had no (legitimately) logged on users. > > > > Any clues to what happened or pointers to how I can look into this > > further myself are greatly appreciated... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dave > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > I had a problem with continuous rebooting of the server. > Taking softupdates off on all filesystems resolved the problem. > Do you have such feature on? > I hope this helps. > Best regards > gregory > -- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message