From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 27 08:53:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09292 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:53:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09255 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:53:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA04310; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:51:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA16219; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 12:26:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA13848; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:55:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:55:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199807271555.LAA13848@lakes.dignus.com> To: grog@lemis.com, jasonm@webace.com.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboots Automaticly In-Reply-To: <19980727165704.X716@freebie.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Monday, 27 July 1998 at 10:46:00 +0800, Jason McKay wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am running a P266 MMX, 64megs of RAM with FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE. It has > > started to reboot with out notice or reason. Below is the log of automatic > > reboots so far: > > > > reboot ~ Mon Jul 27 10:38 > > reboot ~ Mon Jul 27 09:01 > > reboot ~ Sun Jul 26 12:16 > > reboot ~ Thu Jul 23 21:24 > > reboot ~ Fri Jul 17 19:41 > > reboot ~ Mon Jul 13 15:45 > > reboot ~ Sat Jul 11 21:04 > > reboot ~ Fri Jul 10 07:01 > > > > No error messages are reported. Any suggestions? > > This is probably some type of strange hardware problem. Can we assume > that you haven't installed new software (including a new kernel) or > new hardware? You also haven't changed your BIOS settings? Then I'd > guess memory first. Remove 32 MB of memory and see if it continues. > If it does, then replace those 32 MB with the other 32 MB, etc. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key Yes - I would tend to agree with the hardware angle.. unless I was also getting mysterious reboots after installing 2.2.6 (which I am.) That is, this is a resounding "me too." I can't rule out a hardware problem on my end... but, the problem mysteriously coincided with the 2.2.6 upgrade. There's a TR for this now; see kern/7367. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message