From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 3 13:19:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA24492 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:19:30 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA24485 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:19:22 -0800 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.50]) by Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id NAA03420; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:19:19 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA00641; Sun, 3 Dec 1995 13:13:11 -0800 Message-Id: <199512032113.NAA00641@corbin.Root.COM> To: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Frank Durda IV) cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mission Impossible-style crashes on 2.1.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Dec 95 11:59:00 +0700." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 13:13:11 -0800 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I have several systems (6) that I recently upgraded to 2.1.0-RELEASE. >These systems all ran 2.0.5 previously, and had no crashes in at >least the previous 90 days (very nice). > >However, in the seven days since upgrading to 2.1.0, the same hardware >has experienced an average of 10 unexpected reboots, or just over >one a day. The systems with more load (news vs no news) crash more often. A couple of observations... If you've had "only" 10 unexpected reboots across 6 machines and that it happens more often on heavy-load machines, does this suggest that some of the machines aren't crashing at all? >Finally it happened in front of me on one of the systems. The system was >reasonably idle (tind was active and I was in vi writing and no X), when >the console keyboard went dead. All the keyboard lights turned off >(NUM LOCK is normally on) and disk activity stopped. I tried changing >screens and hitting a few keys like NUM LOCK, but no action. I then >unplugged and reconnected the keyboard. That didn't help either. >Then around 15 seconds after the system went dead, the screen cleared and >the system rebooted. Do you use a screensaver on your machines? -DG