Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:34:23 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Sudden Reboots Message-ID: <20041002003423.GA96815@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200410012023.04922.durham@jcdurham.com> References: <200409301003.00492.durham@jcdurham.com> <20041001223802.GA90717@xor.obsecurity.org> <200410012023.04922.durham@jcdurham.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:23:04PM -0400, Jim Durham wrote: > > Actual "spontaneous reboots" are very rare > > These are very rare.... except they seem to happen about once a day for a > while and then stop... very strange.. > > > and usually caused by hardware problems (e.g. faulty power supply, > > overheating CPU, bad RAM). > > Possible, but if so, the hardware fixed itself on the first two boxes I > mentioned. Consistent with marginal hardware issues (heating, poorly seated PCI cards, fluctuating power supply, ...). > > Enable DDB, and see what happens the next > > time it crashes. > > I'll try that on the one that's doing it now. Any suggestions as to how to log > this to get the moset info ? Set up a serial console and use that. It's well-documented in the handbook and developer's handbook. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXfePWry0BWjoQKURAioXAKD43W9jcI9fu5/i8asmMD/2Rz5V2ACgovYb sYVAjfG5tSvyh22lPTcCtvM= =h4ve -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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