From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 9 15:38:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27020 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:38:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from destiny.erols.com (destiny.erols.com [207.96.73.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26994 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:38:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdowdal@destiny.erols.com) Received: from destiny.erols.com (someone@destiny.erols.com [207.96.73.65]) by destiny.erols.com (8.9.2/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA73718; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:30:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:30:05 -0500 (EST) From: John Dowdal To: Blaz Zupan cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you have DDB enabled? YOur spontaneous reboots might be panics with the messages hidden "behind" xwindows so you never see them. If you turn on DDB, it will crash to the debugger instead of just reboot. On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Blaz Zupan wrote: > I have another idea. I looked through old (closed) PR's and stumbled upon > PR 376 titled "tcpdump seems to cause spontaneous reboots". > > I noticed that the bug was caused by bpfilter. Until now I received three > kernel config files from people experiencing spontaneous reboots and all > three had bpfilter enabled. I also have bpfilter. That makes us four. > > I am compiling a kernel without bpfilter to see my reboots disappear. > > Blaz Zupan, blaz@medinet.si, http://home.amis.net/blaz > Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia > > > 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