From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Wed Mar 8 17:28:01 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B8FD03769 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:28:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7C10137A for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:28:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: from pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id v28HRvht001741; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd-rwg@localhost) by pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id v28HRvp6001740; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <201703081727.v28HRvp6001740@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Help with silent reboot of 10.3-stable system In-Reply-To: <86b89c6c-9a00-1033-4181-a7e0da2ed66f@digitaldaemon.com> To: Jan Knepper Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:27:57 -0800 (PST) CC: Bob Willcox , hackers list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:47:09 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:28:01 -0000 > Is your system swapping to disk? Heavily? > > Might want to check the swap space on disk. > > I had spontaneous reboots some years ago because of bad swap space on > disk. (Got a new disk, 'dd'-ed the old disk to the new disk, reboot on > the new disk and everything was fine) > > Jan Good possibilty too, though usually this one causes console message to be spewed out and evetually a swap pager panic. Though no evidence is left behind beccase the disk couldnt be used to indicate an issue. Your probably not around the console when this happens Bob? It may be possible to hook up a serial console and capture the panic if it is happening. There are other failue modes that leave no on disk trace as well, but well spit out a panic to a serial console. > On 03/07/2017 20:56, Bob Willcox wrote: > > Over the past month or so my network fileserver system (NFS support for my > > entire, small, network) has begun silently rebooting itself. Here is the uname > > -a output: > > > > FreeBSD vader.immure.com 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #15 r313997: Mon Feb 20 14:40:00 CST 2017 bob@vader.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > > > At first I suspected that it might be the power supply as it was a couple of > > years old so I replaced that. Unfortunately, it has begun doing it again (had > > a couple of weeks respite) so now my suspicions seem to have been incorrect. > > > > I was hoping that someone might be able to give me some clues on what I can do > > to reveal the problem. Are there any general debug settings for the kernel (or > > elsewhere) that would maybe give an indication of why it is being rebooted > > (assuming it's a software problem)? > > > > Thanks for any suggestions you may have! > > > > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org