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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:18:19 +0000
From:      Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reboot DURING a portupgrade
Message-ID:  <d014caa50501301018228fc653@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <41FD1DBF.7080700@taborandtashell.net>
References:  <d014caa50501300626104a3e02@mail.gmail.com> <41FD1DBF.7080700@taborandtashell.net>

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Why will it have suddenly started doing it?
It was fine a week ago.



On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:47:43 -0800, Tabor Kelly
<tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> wrote:
> Ben Haysom wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am running FBSD 5.3-CURRENT on a Duron 700Mhz 384Mb RAM.
> >
> > When I do (as root)
> >
> > #portupgrade -a
> >
> > it comes back with:
> >
> > Stale dependency: acroread-5.10_1 --> linux_base-8-8.0_6 -- manually
> > run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> >
> > So I do
> >
> > #portupgrade -a -O
> >
> > and *everytime* it reboots itself before the portupgrade is complete.
> > Not a clean reboot though - it doesn't dismount filesystems before it goes.
> >
> > I can't work out what it's doing.
> > There is nothing relevant in /var/log/messages.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Ben.
> 
> Like Karol Kwiatkowski suggested, I would say you have about a 99%
> chance this is a hardware failure. In addition to what Karol suggested,
> it could also be a faulty power supply. Also, I would say look into the
> hardware in this order:
> 
> 1. RAM
> 2. Power Supply
> 3. CPU
> 
> Note: The above is just my personal opinion.
> 
> --
> 
> Tabor Kelly
> tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net
> http://tabor.taborandtashell.net
>



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