Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:07:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: Matt Rudderham <matt@researcher.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Reboot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010201556280.36319-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLEKOOLGIBFPGLFEKGEKHCFAA.matt@researcher.com>
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matt Rudderham wrote: > Hi, > I was working on a different machine when my FreeBSD box (4.0 RELEASE) > spontaneously rebooted itself. The output of Last shows as follows: > ( All users logged in at time( All Local vts.)) > matt ttyv4 Wed Oct 11 16:24 - crash (8+06:04) > There is also the entry: > reboot ~ Thurs Oct 19 22:28 >=20 > Is there anywhere else I should be looking? > If this is a onetime thing, it's not a major problem, and the box did bri= ng > itself up okay (first boot on a rebuilt kernel), it just seemed odd, I wa= s > watching the terminal, which was tailing an apache log file, and it just > went blank and rebooted. I wouldn't mind correcting the prob if I could. = I > checked all of the usual sources first, i.e. power, overheating, etc. Als= o I'd look precisely where you looked first. Then I'd check my memory thoroughly, most random "silent" reboots I've had I traced to faulty or unsuitable memory modules. Why don't I check the memory first, you ask. Go figure.=A0:) > on a side note, has anyone heard anything on the status of the "broken" = le > driver in FreeBSD 4.0, I assume it wasn't fixed in 4.1, the status page( > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D18641 ), hasn't updated, and= I've > gotten no response from the author. Yes, check PR #19219. Unfortunately I have two dozen le NICs lying around but no spare 4.x box to test them with, so I can't help out until I find/build one. If you look at the driver source though, you'll see that some change was made in mid-July, that could possibly have fixed it. -ac --=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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