From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 7 9:27:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk [194.81.5.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8080714E59 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 09:27:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk) Received: from greg (gquinlan [194.81.0.56]) by amanda.qmpgmc.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA03894; Fri, 7 May 1999 17:27:23 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <014f01be9bcb$2200d9a0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk> Reply-To: "Greg Quinlan" From: "Greg Quinlan" To: "Joseph Jacobson" , Subject: Re: Strange reboot saga Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:27:12 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am looking like an idiot! I have pushed and pushed to get FreeBSD installed as the replacement primary servers. (DNS, Web, Firewall, E-Mail, NAT.....) Now ........... well the rest is history............ (3.1-Stable) 2 Days... reboot.... 2 Days.....reboot..... Always around 16.29pm BST. No beep.....Same here!! No Panic....Same here!! Hangs.........Same here!! Reboots......Same here!! Starts up and runs perfectly....Same here!! WTF... yes#!@? I have compiled ddb... and so on but have no idea what to do next! Greg -----Original Message----- From: Joe Jacobson To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: 07 May 1999 15:45 Subject: Strange reboot saga > >Came home a couple of days ago to my wife telling me that my 3.1-STABLE box >rebooted on her when she was surfing. (She habitually causes netscape 4.5 >to crash, but I thought the box going down was a bit strange.) I find the >machine in a powered down state, bring it back up, and log in as myself. >I immediately startx, the graphics mode changes, and then it hangs for a >couple of seconds, and all of a sudden I'm looking at the boot message >from my graphics card. No beep, no panic, just an instantaneous reboot. >The machine comes back up, I log in as root, check the logs, (I'm keeping >*.debug syslogs), dmesg, nothing. startx (as root), nothing. Log in as >myself, startx, everything is great. I chalk it up to an act of Eris. > >Last night, I built the world, from sources two days ago. Everything went >peachy. Recompiled the kernel, rebooted, the box comes up fine. Log in >as myself, startx, it reboots. WTF? Watch the box come up again, log in >as myself, startx, it reboots again. WTF?!?! I let the machine come up, >and then go to bed, thinking I fscked up the installworld or something. >Wake this morning, log in as root, check the logs, nothing. startx, works >like a champ, logout, login as myself, startx, works great. > >If anyone is interested, I suppose I could compile a debugging kernel, >reboot, and then startx.... > >-- >Joseph Jacobson Finger for PGP >#include >Two men walk into a bar. The third one ducks. > > >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