From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 00:06:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA27359 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kefron.portal.ca (kefron.portal.ca [204.174.36.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA27354 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:06:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from puppy.vr.puppy (d164.portal.ca [205.206.104.164]) by kefron.portal.ca (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA21246 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <31782A54.41C67EA6@portal.ca> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:05:40 +0000 From: Christoff Snijders X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Spontaneous reboots Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, FreeBSD guru(s): Firstly, thanks for a really great product (FreeBSD)! Oh, what the heck--thanks for a really great suite of products (BSDI, FreeBSD, NetBSD. . .) :-) I posted a message on the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc newsgroup, but haven't received any replies yet, so I thought I'd post a message here, too. Almost every morning (with literally one or two exceptions), for about the last four or five days, when I check my FreeBSD box, it has rebooted itself. I checked the obvious (power), but that wasn't the problem. Instead, after some testing, I've discovered that it may be a matter of memory (Signal 11) errors which aren't given the chance to generate core dumps, but instead reboot the machine. I can reproduce one of the errors. If I log in as one of my users who is on group wheel, and I run xdtm (from the ports collection), the program core-dumps (signal 11). If I run the same command as root, it runs perfectly for a while, then core-dumps, too. Okay, it could be a bad executable or buggy code, so not really serious. Serious, however, are the reboot problems, which are occurring with /etc/daily (run by cron at 02:00), which I have not (yet) modified from its original form. Specifically, I think the problem is with find. >From time to time, even when I perform a find manually (though more rarely by this method than by cron)--say, for example, find / -name text.txt -print the machine will pause for a moment or two, and then reboot itself. While, in principle, I'm not unwilling to consider the possibility of faulty RAM or a faulty motherboard, I believe this is unlikely, since I am also running Windoze 95 on the same machine with a slew of (some really demanding, processor & FPU-wise) applications, and I receive no errors. The machine is a Gateway 2000, with Intel Pentium 120 AMI BIOS 16MB EDO RAM STB Trio 64V+ video card (PCI) IDE Western Digital Caviar 21200 1.2GB hard disk Wearnes 6X IDE CD-ROM drive Telepath 28.8 Fax Modem 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive PS/2-style mouse 104-key keyboard Any ideas? With the exception of the occasional Signal 11 error, the machine is running fine, as is BSD, and I *really love* this operating system, and would love to see it run with stability. Is there anything in -STABLE or -CURRENT you think might solve my problems? Thanks in advance. -- Christoff Snijders hjcs@portal.ca