Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:37:45 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <ruigrjer@start.nl> Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <XFMail.981222223745.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19981222190829.B11776@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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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 <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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