From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 13:26:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.jadeb.com (mailgate.jadeb.com [62.49.93.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C3937B401 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 13:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jadeb.com (firewall.jadeb.com [192.168.254.2]) by mailgate.jadeb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB4D446B1C for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 21:28:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nettle by jadeb.com with local (RemoteNB 1.54beta1) for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 18 May 2002 21:26:16 +0000 Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 21:26:15 GMT From: Daniel Barron To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: After 170 days uptime, now reboots every few hours Message-ID: References: <20020518202133.74BBE5D88@server3.safepages.com> In-Reply-To: <20020518202133.74BBE5D88@server3.safepages.com> X-Organization: Jades Domain User-Agent: Messenger-Pro/2.60 (RemoteNB/1.54beta1) (RISC-OS/4.27) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 In message <20020518202133.74BBE5D88@server3.safepages.com> E.J.Cerejo 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. -- Daniel Barron (Visit http://dansguardian.org/ - True web content filtering for all) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message