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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 13:23:24 +1000
From:      Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   can't reboot
Message-ID:  <200209110323.NAA02239@tungsten.austclear.com.au>

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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						<ahl@austclear.com.au>
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



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