Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:30:54 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ruigrjer@start.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <XFMail.981222193054.conrads@neosoft.com> In-Reply-To: <s67f6321.013@start.nl>
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On 22-Dec-98 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > Today the box spontaneously rebooted twice. Both time I was running X and > downloading with Netscape... Update the sources one would say... Mayhaps, > were it not that the same thing happened to me under CURRENT last sunday: > mouse froze up and all screen activity was stopped until it resetted also > whilst running X, Netscape and doing disk access/downloading. > > Also, nothing logged in /var/log/messages so it's a female dog to > trace... > > I might be wrong on this, but this seems too much for a coincedence. > Especially since I have been able to do it again. > > We do have 3-5 other FreeBSD boxen here, so how do I set up some sort of > serial console to check what's happening? Because I really want to see > what's been causing this... > > Any other ideas as to trace are welcome See section 22 of the handbook -- "Kernel debugging" http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook298.html#643 -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> "You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks." -- Gary Giddens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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