From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 21 23:12:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA17224 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA17215 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xD1ip-0002rz-00; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:11:51 -0700 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:11:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Joseph Stein cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help... Unexplained crashes under RELENG_2_2 (last message in syslog is from atrun) In-Reply-To: <199709220513.WAA00814@shasta.wstein.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Joseph Stein wrote: > Over the course of the last four to six weeks, my system has been crashing > unexpectedly (and of course, when I'm not home to coax it back to life). > > Today, it died, and rebooted itself, though not a soft reboot (like it > used to do occasionally) -- it was a hard reboot... I don't understand. It rebooted itself, and it was a hard reboot? That isn't possible. Is a panic message displayed? > The last thing that is written to syslog() when it happens is messages like: > Sep 21 17:00:00 shasta CRON[925]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Strange, cron messages are normally written to /var/cron/log. > This system runs a plethora of daemons -- xntpd, named, sshd, httpd, ftpd, > rwhod -- am I merely overloading it? Or is there some bug in at/atrun? atrun is an application, even if buggy it is not supposed to crash the system However, cron normally runs atrun every 5 minutes. It is probably _always_ the last log entry, because nothing else has happened yet. > I have coredumps enabled but have not yet seen anything in /var/run/crash > from it. > > Should I just rebuild the world? (I'm going to anyway, and see if that helps). > > And, no, the power has not been out here today. (Other system is running > just fine, and is identical except runs stock 2.1.7.) > > More information on request; not sure exactly what to send along with this. > > Here is some syslog() info; it has been edited to exclude the xntpd, named, and > sendmail stuff. If you wish to examine the whole chunk from today, I'll have > it available at > > ftp://shasta.wstein.com/pub/system/log.970921 (it's a *.* log so it's huge.) You put all the logs into one file? That is very odd, and definitely not how the default config works. > in short order (by the time you read this message.) > > Thanks for any help! Tom