From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 1:16: 8 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 7556037B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:16:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0106643E4A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 01:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 193CF8133C; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:45:56 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 17:45:56 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Seth Murray Cc: freeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots, Clock thrown off Message-ID: <20020821081556.GK78608@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <7662DB07-B4CB-11D6-95E8-0003936F0B0A@comboard.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7662DB07-B4CB-11D6-95E8-0003936F0B0A@comboard.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Tuesday, 20 August 2002 at 23:01:41 -0700, Seth Murray wrote: > Our new FBSD 4.6 server is spontaneously rebooting a couple times a day. > No related log entries -- just resets without warnings or messages. Are you getting any processes core dumping at unrelated times? > When it powers back up, the CMOS clock is still correct, but the > system clock is off by (apparently) random amounts -- usually less > than 12 hours. I don't understand this. The system clock gets reloaded from the system clock. Is the time zone file changed? > Running 4.6-Release. TYAN S2462 board with dual AMD 1666MHz > processors. All hardware is new. Not finding anything telling in > any of the logs, I'm beginning to guess at a power supply or board > level problem. We're running current releases of apache mod_ssl, > postgresql, mod_php. Nothing else fancy. No unusual cron stuff. Hmm. We've seen problems related to (but probably not caused by) AMD processors in the past. I have one here (850 MHz Duron) which won't run 4.6 reliably. Have you tried other versions of FreeBSD? Are you getting messages about IDE problems? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message