From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Oct 22 19:48:48 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B1F7A1C8F6 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:48:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaymax36@gmail.com) Received: from mbob.nabble.com (mbob.nabble.com [162.253.133.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E3B19E1 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaymax36@gmail.com) Received: from msam.nabble.com (unknown [162.253.133.85]) by mbob.nabble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80741841BE7 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:39:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:48:47 -0700 (MST) From: jaymax To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1445543327031-6047087.post@n5.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <15365.128.135.52.6.1445538332.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <1445485729838-6046921.post@n5.nabble.com> <15365.128.135.52.6.1445538332.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: Automatic reboots on boot attempts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:48:48 -0000 Thanks Valeri - I do like your thinking: I am not running X; (as far as I know) I agree! it must have gone into multiuser state, perhaps. But wouldn't this suggest passing the 'init / getty' stage? This was a confusing area as I was thinking of perhaps a problem with /usr/libexec/getty and the ttys* I have tried forcing it into singleuser mode, option 2 on the startup splash screen I think, with little success. But I do not have anything in loader.conf so everything should be running in default mode. This is a clean install, just about a week or two old and in the throes of rebuilding. "bad memory could also cause a reboot" - That's why I checked my capacitors / hardware etc. If it was faulty memory wouldn't that me manifested also in running from the livefs? can I install /sysutils/memstat from the ports while using livefs? Will take another look if anything X related is running. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Automatic-reboots-on-boot-attempts-tp6046921p6047087.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.