From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 17:15:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6969614BF5 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09235; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:15:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Todd Anderson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Seemingly random rebooting In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19990609163023.00a17a5c@mail.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Todd Anderson wrote: > hello every once and a while i feel the need to look at my FreeBSD > computers screen to see if any errors are on the screen. When i move the > mouse to turn off the screensaver there are alot of random characters on > the screen. After about 5 seconds the computer reboots without unmounting > the filesystem. That's nutty. What version of FreeBSD is this? Which screensaver? What kind of mouse? I assume you're running moused. > All of my internet access runs though this machine and seems to > work right up untill the computer reboots. > > im some cases i have turned off the screensaver and seen that the > mailserver has printed a message on the screen for each and every email > that has bounced. After this the computer runs out of memory (or somthing > similar) because the server will not work until rebooted. Can you capture this? You may want to a) compile a debugging kernel and take a dump or b) run top and look for a runaway process. > And on a totally different note My internet access is a cable > modem that uses DHCP. But FreeBSD doesnt seem to support this No, just install isc-dhcp. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message