From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 22 13:31:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16781 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:31:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16771 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:31:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.57.27]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA4EEA; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:31:20 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981222190829.B11776@scientia.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:37:45 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Ben Smithurst Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Dec-98 Ben Smithurst wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > >> I have a FreeBSD workstation at my work running 2.2.5. >> >> This box is one that is hard to bring down except by loss of power or >> the reboot command. >> >> Today the box spontaneously rebooted twice. > > I've only ever seen this once, and it turned out the fan on my CPU had > sort of stopped. One thing to check anyway.. I will try that just to verify it not to be the problem ;) Thanks anyways... 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? (using a serial console as someone in SCSI said about my homesystem problem) --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Life is the only Pain asmodai(at)wxs.nl we endeavour... Network/Security Specialist BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message