From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 4 23: 6: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D802154B4 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 23:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA23044; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 00:04:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991005000224.04249100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 00:04:24 -0600 To: Kris Kirby , Walter Campbell From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Strange reboots Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37F9135B.9DEDB85@airnet.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Usually, this is due to hardware, but sometimes it isn't. I discovered, by accident, that failing to compile FreeBSD 2.2.7 or 2.2.8 with the ATAPI_STATIC option would cause random reboots on some of our systems. Probably a timing problem in the disk code. Never found out what the race condition was, but did solve the problem by compiling the kernel with different options. --Brett At 03:51 PM 10/4/99 -0500, Kris Kirby wrote: >Walter Campbell wrote: > > > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Andreas Berg wrote: > > > > > I recently installed FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE (990926-snapshot). The reason I > > > upgraded was that my old 3.2-STABLE got unstable and rebooted a little now > > > and then, just like it felt like it. Now, a couple of hours after the > > > installation of 3.3-STABLE, I get the same strange phenomenon, the box just > > > reboots. > > > > > I've had the same problems...all due to hardware. Machine would randomly > > reboot about once a week, then once every two days or so, finally once a > > day. Tried upgrading hte software, checked for possible heat problems, > > checked the RAM, all fine...Disabled the L2 cache, haven't had a single > > problem since (unless you count the machine room getting flooded by > > Hurricane Floyd). Most unusual things can be traced down to hardware > > problems. > >Ah, now that's a great way to get replacement parts / better equipment. >But how to get the firehose into the machine room.... > >-- >Kris Kirby > >------------------------------------------- >TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message