From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 6 22:01:52 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 C3B2F16A41F for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:01:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6541443D46 for ; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 22:01:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 27554 invoked by uid 502); 6 Nov 2005 22:01:51 -0000 Received: from dsl28217.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.115.217) by 0 with SMTP; 6 Nov 2005 22:01:51 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.115.217 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl28217.ywave.com Message-ID: <436E7D4E.6080707@ywave.com> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:01:50 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: skylar@cs.earlham.edu References: <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com> <436E7599.9090003@cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <436E7599.9090003@cs.earlham.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freeBSD Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:01:52 -0000 Skylar Thompson wrote: > 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. > I was thinking that too, unfortunately I don't have a spare and was hoping to diagnose before buying parts. Voltages look fine when I check the accessory lines (+5 and +12) with a multimeter under load. Thanks, Micah