Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:39:14 +0100 From: Roger Olofsson <240olofsson@telia.com> To: Robert Richards <richard.robert@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quite Stumped here, need suggestions Message-ID: <49456EF2.1050902@telia.com> In-Reply-To: <43c4e0a0812141200j52fd8951j68f4f804024bb785@mail.gmail.com> References: <43c4e0a0812141200j52fd8951j68f4f804024bb785@mail.gmail.com>
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Robert Richards skrev: > Hi All: > > I am running: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #3: Sun Oct 5 15:31:05 EDT 2008 > On a Sager 8800 Laptop. I have had FreeBSD installed for about a year, > and all is working perfectly. I can bring up KDE, run many apps, all > without a problem, except for ONE recent development. Every so often > FreeBSD initiates a clean shutdown on it's own. Xwindows goes down > cleanly, kernel modules are unloaded, processes are stopped, drives > are cleanly dismounted, and the system is powered down. It's exactly > what you would expect if you issued a shutdown -h now command. No > core files are generated, and messages, even when the OS is brought up > with verbose logging shows nothing. > > After trying many things, including running with a previous kernel, a > GENERIC kernel, running in single-user mode, running minimalist, > etc.... I decided to buildworld and buildkernel and essentially > reinstall everything. > > While updating sources via cvsup, there was a shutdown. A subsequent > attempt completed successfully. I then cleared out /usr/obj and did a > make buildworld. After 39 minutes a shutdown. Repeated this, and a > shutdown happened after 7 minutes. I repeated this in single user > mode, with older kernels, with GENERIC kernel, same results, the > system shuts down cleanly at some point. Never at the same point or > doing the same task (Yes I used script as well; script simply exits > as if make said all done! ). It's as if a ghost-root issued a > shutdown -h command. > > One additional clue. If I bring the system up "without acpi" the > shutdown is instant, and unclean. No scripts are run, drives are left > dirty, but still no clue in the logs. > > I am now stumped! What could cause the system to shut down in this > fashion? With acpi active, the init scripts are executed in shutdown > mode. What could cause the kernel to believe it has received a command > to shutdown like this? > > I am not new to this stuff, but I have never seen anything like this. > I AM new to FreeBSD, I had been running Linux for years until > recently, and absolutely love the order, consistency, layout, and > clean architecture of this OS. But this is weird! > > Where to look? What to try? I am truly stumped here. > > Bob > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.18/1848 - Release Date: 2008-12-14 12:28 > Hi Bob, Do the shutdowns appear after using the lap for some time? If that is the case then I'd guess it's a heat problem or a disk failing. Have you booted to single user and done fsck? /R
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