Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:42:15 -0500 From: Chuck PUP Payne <payne@magidesign.com> To: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>, Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! Message-ID: <BAA4D7D6.28F0B%payne@magidesign.com> In-Reply-To: <20030324194421.GB716@ns1.webwarrior.net>
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One more thing check you cpu. You could have a bad fan on the cpu, rebooting usually mean it's overheating. Are you ovoerclocking the CPU? You could always as stated faulted hardware. You could put out everything that is not needed to boot up. Then start replace each part until you find out what is bad. Payne On 3/24/03 2:44 PM, "Josh Paetzel" <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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