Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:47:10 +0100 From: Grzegorz Czaplinski <gregory@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> To: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous rebooting problems Message-ID: <20001218174710.D48643@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <3A3C148B.9B08542D@acm.org> References: <3A3C148B.9B08542D@acm.org>
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On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 01:19:07AM +0000, David Goddard wrote: > Hi, > > In the course of one week, we have had three FreeBSD stable boxes just > reboot on us and I'm trying to work out what's going wrong. The reboots > were at different times of day with machines at different physical > locations, so I don't believe power outages were involved (although > we're looking into any causes along those lines). > > I guess there may be a degree of concidence involved, but I really would > like to see if there's any common factor here. > > The messages log show nothing before the reboot: > > [...] > Dec 16 03:59:00 cassium /kernel: ipfw: Entry 306 cleared. > Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD > Project. > Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, > 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,1994 > [...] > Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > One of the machines was built from 4.2 stable sources cvsupped Nov 23 at > about 18:00 GMT, the others are similar. > > I don't believe any of the machines were particularly heavily loaded at > the time. At least one of them had no (legitimately) logged on users. > > Any clues to what happened or pointers to how I can look into this > further myself are greatly appreciated... > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message I had a problem with continuous rebooting of the server. Taking softupdates off on all filesystems resolved the problem. Do you have such feature on? I hope this helps. Best regards gregory -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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