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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:13:45 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        "Crespo, Ramon" <Ramon.crespo@stis.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: machine randomly reboots FreeBSD-4.3_RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20010725091344.A25716@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <EFF0DECB3849D4118E2C00508BCFD4E530F3D1@fl-mia01-m.stis.com.10.in-addr.arpa>; from Ramon.crespo@stis.com on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:15:01AM -0400
References:  <EFF0DECB3849D4118E2C00508BCFD4E530F3D1@fl-mia01-m.stis.com.10.in-addr.arpa>

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:15:01AM -0400, Crespo, Ramon wrote:
> Hello All,
> Over the weekend the machine randomly rebooted over the weekend if there any
> logs or anything I should be looking at to find out why someone please let
> me know. Ive had uptimes of 3 weeks on it and then it randomly reboots. Note
> its a DEC Alpha PWS 600au with 256MB of ram and its currently running
> 4.3-RELEASE.

Alpha machines don't clear the dmesg buffer during reboot.
So if it was a panic you can read the panic message after reboot
using dmesg.
If you don't see older boot messages it usually means a power loss.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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