Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:44:21 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! Message-ID: <20030324194421.GB716@ns1.webwarrior.net> In-Reply-To: <BAA49A98.4698%ukla@attbi.com> References: <BAA49A98.4698%ukla@attbi.com>
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:20:56AM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? Yes. > > My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they did > not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going of for a few > months now -- intermittent restarts that no one claims responsibility for. > The machine is probably rebooting itself. > This is a new machine with the latest OS (4.7) so I can't blame a faulty > power supply or something like -- I have more fans than Britney in the > server, for HD and CPU so I don't think it's a temp problem. > > > Thoughts, suggestions? > > TIA > Steve > Why can't you blame the power supply? Just because it's new? It's new is not really a valid troubleshooting technique, especially when you have the evidence that something is broken staring you in the face. I'm not trying to say you don't have a software issue, but in my experience with FreeBSD, if you're having reboots I start looking for faulty hardware right away. My first test is always to swap out the RAM, and then go from there. <soapbox> One of the things I really like about FreeBSD is that it does not play nicely with flakey, old, broken, or otherwise fux0rd hardware. I don't care if it's brand new, worked fine in windows AND linux, or any other excuse, if you are seeing reboots that's a pretty good sign there's flakey hardware in the box. </soapbox> Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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