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Date:      Sun, 3 Dec 1995 15:17:33 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bugs@freebsd.org, uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com
Subject:   Re: Mission Impossible-style crashes on 2.1.0
Message-ID:  <199512030417.PAA07904@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Finally it happened in front of me on one of the systems.  The system was
>reasonably idle (tind was active and I was in vi writing and no X), when
>the console keyboard went dead.  All the keyboard lights turned off
>(NUM LOCK is normally on) and disk activity stopped.  I tried changing
>screens and hitting a few keys like NUM LOCK, but no action.  I then
>unplugged and reconnected the keyboard.  That didn't help either.
>Then around 15 seconds after the system went dead, the screen cleared and
>the system rebooted.

This seems to be a normal panic except there is no console output
(PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME) is 15 seconds).

>Since there is no visible panic and nothing in the logs, I am
>looking for suggestions on how to investigate this problem.  I don't
>think a triple-fault is occurring, because the system reset would occur
>instantly.   The odd thing is the 15-second delay is consistent,

Try using a serial console (connect a 9600 bps terminal to sio0 and
boot with -h).

Bruce



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