Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:20:43 -0500 From: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apparently random reboots with RELENG_4 Message-ID: <20020210142043.D16024@rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020210094733.A239@host213-123-133-83.in-addr.btop>; from dominic_marks@btinternet.com on Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:47:33AM %2B0000 References: <20020210094733.A239@host213-123-133-83.in-addr.btop>
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:47:33AM +0000, Dominic Marks wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've been an experiencing an odd problem since 4.3-STABLE (not sure
> of a more precise portion of time) where my desktop machine will
> spontaneously reboot. So for I haven't had any luck in finding out
> what the problem has been.
I've had the same thing since around then. I got a bunch of advice on
checking whether my cards were properly seated and stuff (apparenly I
have a picky motherboard: ECS-K7S5A), but it didn't make a difference.
Mucking with BIOS settings and what not didn't help either.
>
> Earlier today as I was browsing some web pages I experienced this same
> problem. The discs make reseting noises and the the screen goes black,
> there is no warning prior to that which I have seen indicating a
> problem. The machine was under little or no load at the time and it
> had been running for around 30 hours without any problems.
>
My uptimes range from two hours to about three days. Then the machine
decides it feels like rebooting.
> To check if the problem could be hardware related I ran -CURRENT on
> this machine for around a month and a half. In this time I experienced
> no reboots, but I don't really want to run -CURRENT on this machine
> forever.
>
My reboots happen in -CURRENT too. I've had -CURRENT on it for about a
month or so now.
> I found this file: /var/crash/minfree, I don't know if it has any
> useful meaning in relation to this problem. It contained only the
> number 2048.
>
I have that too. Don't know what it means.
--
Munish Chopra The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative
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