Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:00:45 -0500 From: "Robert Richards" <richard.robert@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Quite Stumped here, need suggestions Message-ID: <43c4e0a0812141200j52fd8951j68f4f804024bb785@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi All: I am running: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #3: Sun Oct 5 15:31:05 EDT 2008 On a Sager 8800 Laptop. I have had FreeBSD installed for about a year, and all is working perfectly. I can bring up KDE, run many apps, all without a problem, except for ONE recent development. Every so often FreeBSD initiates a clean shutdown on it's own. Xwindows goes down cleanly, kernel modules are unloaded, processes are stopped, drives are cleanly dismounted, and the system is powered down. It's exactly what you would expect if you issued a shutdown -h now command. No core files are generated, and messages, even when the OS is brought up with verbose logging shows nothing. After trying many things, including running with a previous kernel, a GENERIC kernel, running in single-user mode, running minimalist, etc.... I decided to buildworld and buildkernel and essentially reinstall everything. While updating sources via cvsup, there was a shutdown. A subsequent attempt completed successfully. I then cleared out /usr/obj and did a make buildworld. After 39 minutes a shutdown. Repeated this, and a shutdown happened after 7 minutes. I repeated this in single user mode, with older kernels, with GENERIC kernel, same results, the system shuts down cleanly at some point. Never at the same point or doing the same task (Yes I used script as well; script simply exits as if make said all done! ). It's as if a ghost-root issued a shutdown -h command. One additional clue. If I bring the system up "without acpi" the shutdown is instant, and unclean. No scripts are run, drives are left dirty, but still no clue in the logs. I am now stumped! What could cause the system to shut down in this fashion? With acpi active, the init scripts are executed in shutdown mode. What could cause the kernel to believe it has received a command to shutdown like this? I am not new to this stuff, but I have never seen anything like this. I AM new to FreeBSD, I had been running Linux for years until recently, and absolutely love the order, consistency, layout, and clean architecture of this OS. But this is weird! Where to look? What to try? I am truly stumped here. Bob -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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