From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 10 20:23:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF4A337B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.austclear.com.au (ns1.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E7943E65 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 20:23:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns1.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8B3NPH14804 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:23:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02239; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:23:25 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200209110323.NAA02239@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: can't reboot Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:23:24 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have a number of hardware identical FreeBSD boxes running 4.3. The hardware is base is a HP Vectra VL400 (733 MHz PIII, 128 MB RAM, builtin Ethernet on xl0), additional Ethernet on dual port Intel cards. The FreeBSD installation has been cut down and configured for headless operation so we can put them in a data centre with the serial consoles connected to Cisco terminal servers. About 12 months ago one of these boxes lost a motherboard and we had to get HP to replace it (the motherboard). Since then I have been unable to reboot the system without manually cycling the power. After I execute the reboot command, I get the following on the (serial) console: Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped syncing disks... 3 done Uptime: 6d23h36m7s Rebooting... Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown and then it just sits there forever until I manually cycle the power. Note that the same messages appear with the other boxes, but they actually reboot shortly after printing the messages. Can anyone toss me a hint? Thanks, Tony -- Tony Landells Principal Networks, Security & IT Systems Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message