From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 6 21:29:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F8F16A41F for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:29:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: from quark.cs.earlham.edu (cs.earlham.edu [159.28.230.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 905A643D45 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 21:29:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (stu160022.student.earlham.edu [159.28.160.22]) (authenticated bits=0) by quark.cs.earlham.edu (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jA6LT173043092 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 6 Nov 2005 16:29:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skylar@cs.earlham.edu) Message-ID: <436E7599.9090003@cs.earlham.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:28:57 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson Organization: Earlham College Computer Science Department User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050602) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micah References: <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA8FB1AC0008880BA4FB05DBD" X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (quark.cs.earlham.edu [159.28.230.3]); Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:29:06 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87/1165/Sun Nov 6 00:12:58 2005 on quark.cs.earlham.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 159.28.230.3 X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on quark.cs.earlham.edu Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: skylar@cs.earlham.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:29:15 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA8FB1AC0008880BA4FB05DBD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Micah wrote: > > My desktop system just started doing this last night. I was upgrading > Gnome using the handy shell script they provide. It looks like > sometime around 11:30pm the computer reset. This morning I'm trying > to reinstall all the software that got lost in last night's reset and > I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in > /var/log/messages before reboot is: > Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 > Nov 6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 > Nov 6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel > > I just ran memtest86+ and there's no memory errors. I'm guessing it's > a hardware issue, but how do I diagnose it? Could it be a bad power supply? Try swapping in another one and see what happens. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ --------------enigA8FB1AC0008880BA4FB05DBD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDbnWbsc4yyULgN4YRAt2RAJ0Y4rJPi1ailIh5VHqH63Vd5TBq7wCfVvZJ RuKCnXS8l/v9JIEFXTOc0gY= =Pchi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA8FB1AC0008880BA4FB05DBD--