From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 4:22: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from atkielski.com (atkielski.com [161.58.232.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E09337B419 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 04:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by atkielski.com (8.11.6) id fAHCLof84670; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:21:50 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <02ac01c16f62$6f835280$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Axel Scheepers" Cc: "Kent Stewart" , "Kris Kennaway" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <020e01c16f42$14885c10$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011117015632.B87944@xor.obsecurity.org> <02a001c16f53$215323b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3BF63DB1.1070008@owt.com> <02a701c16f5e$a9cb0c70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011117130052.B7072@mars.thuis> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 13:21:44 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Axel writes: > You might consider upgrading to 4.4-STABLE or > apply the appropiate security patches for 4.3 > since there are some vulnerabilities in it. How would this explain or help a mysterious reboot during the night? > Try dmesg | less to get more info about your processor, > it normally prints out all the info you need (Stepping, > speed etc.) It says CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ (1335.62-MHz 686-class CPU) > That's fairly normal, try looking at your /var/log/messages > for strange things just before the reoot, it might be > hardware related and most of the time > syslogd will report something. That was the first place I looked. The first entry is a turnover of the log, at 20:00 on November 14. The next entry is the boot-up sequence after the mysterious reboot, three days later. Nothing in between. The only other unexpected reboot I've had was in KDE, which I tried to change fonts. As a result, I wrote off KDE and am no longer using X. (As it was, KDE froze or misbehaved several times in just a few hours, and I really don't see the point in trying to work with anything that laden with bugs.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message