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Date:      Tue, 11 May 1999 17:27:12 +0100
From:      "Greg Quinlan" <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk>
To:        "Joseph Jacobson" <jacobson@pobox.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Strange reboot saga
Message-ID:  <014f01be9bcb$2200d9a0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk>

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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 <marauder@jaygrp.intelihealth.com>
To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <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 <jacobson@pobox.com>    Finger for PGP
>#include <std/disclaimer.h>
>Two men walk into a bar.  The third one ducks.
>
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