From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 10:58: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com (smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com [204.210.192.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EB937B406 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@ohio.com) Received: by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com; id NAA25316; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:55:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from unknown(166.108.139.2) by smartwall.thebeaconjournal.com via smap (V4.2) id xma025131; Wed, 25 Jul 01 13:55:09 -0400 Received: from [206.128.102.10] ([206.128.102.10]) by bea-mx.thebeaconjournal.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GH1JNR00.KPV for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:07:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jarnold@krcoms1.knightridder.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:53:53 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jim Arnold Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 maybe i have chosen my wording poorly. by spontaneous reboots i don't mean that the computer is just happily crunching away and then for no reason it just reboots. I'm talking about doing *something* that literally freaks FreeBSD out and it reboots instead of handling the situation or letting you kill the offending process. as an example today i went to copy mp3 files off a cd i burned at home on my my FBSD box and transfer them to my FBSD work box. For some reason I was getting a "bad address" error on one file. I tried to copy that file to another directory when a weird buzzing sound started coming out of my speakers. X locked up and i could not ssh into into the box. about 20 seconds after it started the computer just rebooted itself. hope that helps clarify. jim >I have only had this problem with bad memory. > >Ray > >On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Jim Arnold wrote: > >> I have been working with FreeBSD now (4.3 Stable and Release) for >>the past few >> months on several different boxes. Before that I was running Slackware Linux >> for about a year and and half. >> >> On three of four different occasions I have had my FreeBSD boxes >>spontaneously >> reboot. Once it was due to an NFS situation (from what I could guess) >> and two or three other times >> it was due to me trying to mount a cdrom that shouldn't be mounted or >> a cdrom that had a bad file on it >> that didn't want to be copied to the hard drive. >> >> How common, in general, are spontaneous reboots in the FreeBSD world? >> I never once >> had my Linux box just give up like FreeBSD seems willing to do. From >> what I have read >> softupdates adds a layer of protection again system corruption in >> these situations. >> >> I guess my expectations coming to FreeBSD from Slackware were pretty >> high so I am somewhat >> surprised this has happened as often as it has. Other than that, my >> experience with FreeBSD has >> been great. It's head and shoulders above Linux in everything else. >> >> Can anyone give some insights or perspective on this? Is this FreeBSD >> glass jaw? How serious >> or potentially damaging are these kinds of spontaneous reboots and >> why does FreeBSD seem more >> prone to these than Linux. Even if I did something stupid I didn't >> expect FreeBSD to just take its >> toys, reboot and go home. >> >> Just wondering what other's experiences are. >> >> Thanks, >> Jim >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- ___________________________________________________________ Jim Arnold Voice: 330.253.9524 x 9-12 Ohio.com Site Administrator Fax: 330.253.8214 http://www.ohio.com Cell: 330.730.0797 AOL IM: instantjim 12 E. Exchange Street - 2nd Fl -- Akron, OH 44308 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message