From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 22:21:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA16978 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:21:03 -0700 Received: from gallux.gallaudet.edu (www.gallaudet.edu [134.231.4.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA16972 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 22:20:57 -0700 Received: by gallux.gallaudet.edu; id AA24207; Mon, 2 Oct 1995 01:23:42 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 01:23:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Basket Case <11jmitch@gallux.gallaudet.edu> Subject: Re: Mysterious reboot...any ideas? To: Ron Lenk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199509300014.SAA00425@widget.xmission.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Ron Lenk wrote: > After doing a build of FreeBSD stable on Sept. 12th, my machine ran > smoothly for 13 days, before it rebooted mysteriously this afternoon, > while I was editing a message in emacs. > The same thing happened to me with 2.1.0-950922-SNAP (will test out the new one sometime soon) -- the machine rebooted mysteriously after editing a file in vi -- I believe I was about to save before it rebooted immediately with no messages or prompts. > I was the only person logged in at the time, and I am the only one with > root access here, so I'm certain that nobody rebooted the machine on > purpose. It looks to me as if init just died. Same thing here -- my net was down while I was doing maintenance, and poof, it rebooted. I am wondering if anyone had similar problems?