Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 01:24:12 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ruigrjer@start.nl> Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <19981223012412.A19415@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981222223745.asmodai@wxs.nl> References: <19981222190829.B11776@scientia.demon.co.uk> <XFMail.981222223745.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > I will try that just to verify it not to be the problem ;) Just shows that the only spontaneous reboots I've seen were caused by hardware. With Windows, on the other hand... oh I won't go into that now... > the weird part is, I think I can recreate the problem by doing the same things, > starting X, starting Netscape and download something... This will trash the PC > within a few seconds/minutes... Any hints on how to spot remote what's screwing > it up? Is the kernel panicking? If so, have you enabled crash dumps? If not, you may want to try that at least (with a -g kernel to analyze the dump) provided you have a swap partition big enough to hold the dump. And have you tried switching to the console after starting the download, to see if anything is printed there? -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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