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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 09:57:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Vince Valenti <vince@blue-box.net>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc:        Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, nate <freebsd@aphroland.org>
Subject:   Re: sudden reboots
Message-ID:  <20020417095432.X63844-100000@kenny.blue-box.net>
In-Reply-To: <001301c1e620$ae6ebf40$c22a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>

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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

DT> ----- Original Message -----
DT> From: "Vince Valenti" <vince@blue-box.net>
DT> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
DT> Cc: "Jonathan Arnold" <jdarnold@buddydog.org>; "Lord Raiden"
DT> <raiden23@netzero.net>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; "nate"
DT> <freebsd@aphroland.org>
DT> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:44 PM
DT> Subject: Re: sudden reboots
DT>
DT>
DT> > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
DT> >
DT> > DT> Please keep me posted regarding how your problem machine does on
DT> > DT> 4.4-RELEASE.  If it solves your problems then I will *DEFINITELY*
DT> > DT> return to 4.4 myself.
DT> > DT>
DT> > DT> I also have another machine that's doing fine on 4.5 so I'm going to
DT> > DT> leave it alone.  My problem machine has run flawlessly since I first
DT> > DT> installed FBSD with 4.0 and have ugraded to all the releases along the
DT> > DT> way.  I did not have a lick of trouble until I upgraded to 4.5.
DT> > DT>
DT> > DT> Thanks for your updates,
DT> > DT>
DT> > DT> Drew
DT> >
DT> > Drew,
DT> >
DT> > I just wanted to keep you posted on my situation.  My machine has been
DT> > running 4.4-RELEASE-p9 without a hitch since April 2nd, so I'd say it's
DT> > safe to downgrade if you're still having problems.
DT>
DT> Thank you for the update.  I've resolved my problem in a different
DT> way. I was given a P133 and motherboard so I upgraded the 486 that was
DT> having the trouble.  So far so good.
DT>
DT> Have you posted your findings to -STABLE or in a PR?  Maybe if the
DT> developers see that the same machine runs fine on 4.4, they will look
DT> into this a little deeper instead of just writing it off as a hardware
DT> issue.

I haven't posted to stable or opened a PR because, unfortunately, I can't
provide any more detail than the fact that it reboots by itself.  This is
a production server that I just can't mess with.  I do have another
identical machine that needs hard drives that I've thought about seeing if
I could reproduce the probelm on...

-- 
Vince Valenti
Systems Administrator
BendNet - Rosenet - Rio


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