From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 15:23:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from forkbomb.martini.nu (forkbomb.martini.nu [204.118.247.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC94F37B406 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reich@forkbomb.martini.nu) Received: (qmail 94535 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Jul 2001 22:23:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:23:09 -0700 From: Mahlon Smith To: Jim Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? Message-ID: <20010725152309.J2068@internetcds.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "jim@ohio.com" on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 01:53:53PM 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 I've seen this with bad ram, also with a bad disk controller. In both cases, console displayed a panic message that helped clue me in on what the problem was, I'd suggest checking your console next time it happens, or if you aren't around, stick a null cable between com1 and comX on another box, and setup a terminal logger (CRT, Kermit, whatever) to capture the panic for review later. ( echo "-P" > /boot.config && reboot ) Regardless, your most likely culprit is hardware. -- Mahlon Smith InternetCDS http://www.internetcds.com On Wed, Jul 25, 2001, Jim Arnold wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message