Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 21:26:15 GMT From: Daniel Barron <nettle@jadeb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After 170 days uptime, now reboots every few hours Message-ID: <a422bf384b.nettle@jadeb.com> In-Reply-To: <20020518202133.74BBE5D88@server3.safepages.com> References: <20020518202133.74BBE5D88@server3.safepages.com>
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E.J.Cerejo <ecerejo@zapo.net> wrote:
[snip]
> > I, essentially, installed FBSD and booted it once and have never had to
> > reboot or had any problems with it for 170 days. But a couple of days
> > ago it rebooted without reason. I saw nothing in the messages or any
> > other log.
> >
> > A day later and the rebooting came every few hours. Nothing gets logged.
> > Sometimes it does not reboot, I just can't ssh or imap or web to it. But
> > I can ping it.
[snip]
> > My question is; how do I work out whats wrong? What tools on FBSD can I
> > use to diagnose a rebooting (with nothing being logged) machine?
> >
> > It has no floppy drive so I can't use my usual memory checking and
> > diagnosis software I usually use.
> I had that problem once before it ended up being a power supply problem,
> changed the power supply and it fixed it but it could be something else
> with your box.
Unfortunately the box is one of those mini-pcs, no bigger than a CD ROM
drive. I can't just swap the PSU from another standard PC to check. This
is also the situation with the HD.
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Daniel Barron
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