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Date:      Sun, 18 May 2003 17:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <ga9@york.ac.uk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.1-BETA i386 spontaneous reboot?
Message-ID:  <20030518170701.R28986@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <007801c31b9f$d44c3520$0de22090@csrv.ad.york.ac.uk>
References:  <007801c31b9f$d44c3520$0de22090@csrv.ad.york.ac.uk>

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<aol> I noticed this as well on my workstation, with kernel and world
built around that time. </aol>

I had a serial console plugged in at the time and didn't see anything
come up.

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Gavin Atkinson wrote:

> I've just had a machine running
>
> FreeBSD buffy.york.ac.uk 5.1-BETA FreeBSD 5.1-BETA #0: Wed May 14
> 11:15:54 BST 2003 i386
>
> spontaneously reboot on me. I was running screen (as a normal user)
> remotely, running "pkg_add -r wget"  (as root)and (as a normal user)
> moving a folder from an NFS mounted filesystem to a local disk when the
> machine rebooted. Nothing was left in the log file other than the
> machine coming back up, and the machine never produced a crash dump.
>
> The machine may have paniced before rebooting as I do have
> DDB_UNATTENDED in the kernel, but for whatever reason a dump was not
> saved and no evidence of a panic is in the messages log. I believe the
> hardware is healthy.
>
> I know this is far too vague to be useful, and I don't think there is
> any other information I can ofer, but I thought I should report it
> anyway.



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