From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 13 04:51:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C72EE16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:51:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1577E43D48 for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:51:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krinklyfig@spymac.com) Received: from unknown (HELO smogmonster.com) (jtinnin@pacbell.net@64.171.3.242 with login) by smtp812.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2005 04:51:05 -0000 From: Joshua Tinnin To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Ben Haysom Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:51:04 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050312093345.233739c4@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503122051.05166.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Subject: Re: Unclean Reboot For No Apparent Reason X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 04:51:06 -0000 On Saturday 12 March 2005 07:59 am, Ben Haysom wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:33:45 -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:29:17 +0000 > > Ben Haysom wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > A while ago I asked about my 5.3 machine which has taken to > > > rebooting itself during a full portupgrade.Doesn't shut down > > > properly - just resets. > > > > > > I was advised to try a few things. > > > > > > I've done memtest86 from CD, let it do 5 passes and it found no > > > problems. I unplugged both CDs and the Floppy, and tried it, but > > > still did the same. cpuburn seems fine. > > > doing mbmon whilst executing the portupgrade -a command shows the > > > temperature get to around 42.5 before it resets, but it can vary. > > > > > > I'm stuck now... any ideas? > > > Ben Haysom > > > > Memory tests only proove that that the memory is good, not that the > > hardware the ram is connected to is good. The same for cpuburn. The > > best stress test is running a make buildword, a make install for > > scilab, and a find /. If that does not do it, it is most likely a > > intermitently flakey power supply. > > those things do not do it. > but the maachine is always on and only ever resets during portupgrade > -a. every time. Well, you might try logging the output and seeing if it's failing at the same point each time - try it more than once, logging to two different files. If it is, then you have a pretty good idea what's going on. If not, it's probably a hardware problem (though possibly not). - jt