Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:07:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: Matt Rudderham <matt@researcher.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange Reboot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010201556280.36319-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLEKOOLGIBFPGLFEKGEKHCFAA.matt@researcher.com>
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Matt Rudderham wrote: > Hi, > I was working on a different machine when my FreeBSD box (4.0 RELEASE) > spontaneously rebooted itself. The output of Last shows as follows: > ( All users logged in at time( All Local vts.)) > matt ttyv4 Wed Oct 11 16:24 - crash (8+06:04) > There is also the entry: > reboot ~ Thurs Oct 19 22:28 > > Is there anywhere else I should be looking? > If this is a onetime thing, it's not a major problem, and the box did bring > itself up okay (first boot on a rebuilt kernel), it just seemed odd, I was > watching the terminal, which was tailing an apache log file, and it just > went blank and rebooted. I wouldn't mind correcting the prob if I could. I > checked all of the usual sources first, i.e. power, overheating, etc. Also I'd look precisely where you looked first. Then I'd check my memory thoroughly, most random "silent" reboots I've had I traced to faulty or unsuitable memory modules. Why don't I check the memory first, you ask. Go figure. :) > on a side note, has anyone heard anything on the status of the "broken" le > driver in FreeBSD 4.0, I assume it wasn't fixed in 4.1, the status page( > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18641 ), hasn't updated, and I've > gotten no response from the author. Yes, check PR #19219. Unfortunately I have two dozen le NICs lying around but no spare 4.x box to test them with, so I can't help out until I find/build one. If you look at the driver source though, you'll see that some change was made in mid-July, that could possibly have fixed it. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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