From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 4 15:13:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scanner.secnap.net (scanner.secnap.net [216.241.67.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA7537B401 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 15:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MIKELT (mikelt.secnap.net [10.1.1.40]) by scanner.secnap.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g54MDOU20668; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:13:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from scheidell@secnap.net) Message-ID: <00c601c20c14$d1a6bd40$2801010a@MIKELT> From: "Michael Scheidell" To: "Oliver Crow" Cc: References: <20020602134713.B2539@mikea.ath.cx> <20020602125640.T79925-100000@iguana.simplexity.net> Subject: Re: Clockwork 24 hour crash in 4.5-RELEASE-p5 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:11:46 -0400 Organization: Secnap Network Security, LLC. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Crow" Newsgroups: local.freebsd.stable Sent: Sunday, June 02, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Clockwork 24 hour crash in 4.5-RELEASE-p5 > > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, mikea wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:37:21PM -0700, Oliver Crow wrote: > > > > > > I have a FreeBSD 4.5-p5 system that's crashing reliably every 24 hours +/- > > > a few minutes. It's been doing this ever since I compiled a 4.5-p4 kernel > > > on March 25th. I cvsup'd to 4.5-p5 and recompiled, but it's still > > > crashing. Interesting story but true: A few years back, a client of ours had a z80 based mpm based system with three vt100 terminals. SOMETIME AROUND 5:00PM, EACH DAY (give or take a fews mins) the vt100 terminal on the main system blinked a little and the whols system crashed, locking out whatever anyone was doing on the other two as well. They were on a ups, they were on surgr suppressors, the serial cables were clean, eiii specs, we slowd down the baud rate, still happened. guess what: there was a postage meter (read BIG MF MAGNET) on the other side of the wall. 5pm, just before going home, the receptionist whould 'ch-chunk' about 40 letters. -- Michael Scheidell SECNAP Network Security, LLC (561) 368-9561 scheidell@secnap.net http://www.secnap.net > > > > Either I'm missing data showing the crash time, or you didn't > > include it. When does this crash happen? Is it during a burst > > of cron-spawned activity? > > It doesn't crash during a burst of cron activity, no. It doesn't occur at > exactly the same time each day, it moves around by a few minutes each > time. If you reboot manually it'll crash at the same time the next day > (ie, 24 hours after the reboot). > > Here's the log of reboots during April. You see it crashed every day > between the first and the 16th. Then it didn't crash for 10 days. I > rebooted manually on the 26th at 20:19, and it started crashing every > day again. > > # last -f /var/log/wtmp.1 reboot > reboot ~ Tue Apr 30 20:17 > reboot ~ Mon Apr 29 20:17 > reboot ~ Sun Apr 28 20:19 > reboot ~ Sat Apr 27 20:19 > reboot ~ Fri Apr 26 20:19 > reboot ~ Fri Apr 26 19:49 > reboot ~ Tue Apr 16 11:10 > reboot ~ Tue Apr 16 11:03 > reboot ~ Mon Apr 15 18:33 > reboot ~ Sun Apr 14 18:37 > reboot ~ Sat Apr 13 18:41 > reboot ~ Fri Apr 12 18:45 > reboot ~ Thu Apr 11 18:48 > reboot ~ Thu Apr 11 18:00 > reboot ~ Tue Apr 9 19:50 > reboot ~ Mon Apr 8 19:54 > reboot ~ Sun Apr 7 19:58 > reboot ~ Sat Apr 6 19:00 > reboot ~ Fri Apr 5 18:58 > reboot ~ Thu Apr 4 18:58 > reboot ~ Wed Apr 3 19:02 > reboot ~ Tue Apr 2 19:00 > reboot ~ Mon Apr 1 19:00 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message