Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 13:47:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> To: Greg Quinlan <greg@qmpgmc.ac.uk> Cc: Joseph Jacobson <jacobson@pobox.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange reboot saga Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905071234250.24019-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> In-Reply-To: <014f01be9bcb$2200d9a0$380051c2@greg.qmpgmc.ac.uk>
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But it's NOT the same. His reboots occur when he starts X. Yours occur randomly (or periodically. Nobody can tell since there's no debugging information you can provide right now). The problem with "ME TOO!" hysteria is that everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon when a subset of the symptoms match. This just adds to the noise level and makes troubleshooting real problems that much more difficult. Now, your problem may indeed be the same as Joe's... but given that the most significant event (the trigger) doesn't match, I think you'll have a hard time justifying a correlation. To move forward, perhaps someone can help you figure out how to capture the necessary information for the people who will eventually identify and fix the problem (I'm waiting for this information myself, BTW. I'll take another stab at the Handbook.) SB On Tue, 11 May 1999, Greg Quinlan wrote: > 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. > > > > > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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