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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:11:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Joseph Stein <joes@seaport.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help... Unexplained crashes under RELENG_2_2 (last message in syslog is from atrun)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970921230629.10039B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709220513.WAA00814@shasta.wstein.com>

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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Joseph Stein wrote:

> Over the course of the last four to six weeks, my system has been crashing
> unexpectedly (and of course, when I'm not home to coax it back to life).
> 
> Today, it died, and rebooted itself, though not a soft reboot (like it
> used to do occasionally) -- it was a hard reboot... 

  I don't understand.  It rebooted itself, and it was a hard reboot?  That
isn't possible.  Is a panic message displayed?

> The last thing that is written to syslog() when it happens is messages like:
> Sep 21 17:00:00 shasta CRON[925]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) 

  Strange, cron messages are normally written to /var/cron/log.

> This system runs a plethora of daemons -- xntpd, named, sshd, httpd, ftpd,
> rwhod -- am I merely overloading it?  Or is there some bug in at/atrun?

  atrun is an application, even if buggy it is not supposed to crash the
system

  However, cron normally runs atrun every 5 minutes.  It is probably
_always_ the last log entry, because nothing else has happened yet.  

> I have coredumps enabled but have not yet seen anything in /var/run/crash
> from it.
> 
> Should I just rebuild the world?  (I'm going to anyway, and see if that helps).
> 
> And, no, the power has not been out here today.  (Other system is running
> just fine, and is identical except runs stock 2.1.7.)
> 
> More information on request; not sure exactly what to send along with this.
> 
> Here is some syslog() info; it has been edited to exclude the xntpd, named, and
> sendmail stuff.  If you wish to examine the whole chunk from today, I'll have
> it available at 
> 
> ftp://shasta.wstein.com/pub/system/log.970921 (it's a *.* log so it's huge.)

  You put all the logs into one file?  That is very odd, and definitely
not how the default config works.

> in short order (by the time you read this message.)
> 
> Thanks for any help!

Tom




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