From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 10 11:25:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca (rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.232.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C408837B416 for ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:25:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from munish@localhost) by rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1AJKh368751 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:20:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from munish) Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:20:43 -0500 From: Munish Chopra To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apparently random reboots with RELENG_4 Message-ID: <20020210142043.D16024@rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020210094733.A239@host213-123-133-83.in-addr.btop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020210094733.A239@host213-123-133-83.in-addr.btop>; from dominic_marks@btinternet.com on Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:47:33AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 09:47:33AM +0000, Dominic Marks wrote: > Hey, > > I've been an experiencing an odd problem since 4.3-STABLE (not sure > of a more precise portion of time) where my desktop machine will > spontaneously reboot. So for I haven't had any luck in finding out > what the problem has been. I've had the same thing since around then. I got a bunch of advice on checking whether my cards were properly seated and stuff (apparenly I have a picky motherboard: ECS-K7S5A), but it didn't make a difference. Mucking with BIOS settings and what not didn't help either. > > Earlier today as I was browsing some web pages I experienced this same > problem. The discs make reseting noises and the the screen goes black, > there is no warning prior to that which I have seen indicating a > problem. The machine was under little or no load at the time and it > had been running for around 30 hours without any problems. > My uptimes range from two hours to about three days. Then the machine decides it feels like rebooting. > To check if the problem could be hardware related I ran -CURRENT on > this machine for around a month and a half. In this time I experienced > no reboots, but I don't really want to run -CURRENT on this machine > forever. > My reboots happen in -CURRENT too. I've had -CURRENT on it for about a month or so now. > I found this file: /var/crash/minfree, I don't know if it has any > useful meaning in relation to this problem. It contained only the > number 2048. > I have that too. Don't know what it means. -- Munish Chopra The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative http://nvidia.netexplorer.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message