From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 8:58: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from taffer.net (c925910-b.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.176.240.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED6637B407 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:57:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sonny@localhost) by taffer.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA23956; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:58:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sonny) From: Sonny Van Hook Message-Id: <200110291058.CAA23956@taffer.net> Subject: 4.1-RELEASE #1 -- Mysterious reboots To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 02:58:33 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi All, I have a server setup remotely running FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #1. The timing seems random, but it will periodically reboot. I have looked in /var/log/messages for clues, but nothing has turned up. I've checked my log files and nothing appears amiss. I'm stumped over how to proceed with this because I can never actually see what's happening before the system crashes. The only "significant" change that has been made to this system (other than the custom kernel) was that the /var filesystem was way too small. I chose the FreeBSD default when setting up the disk and the 30MB that was allocated filled up quickly. So, I moved the majority of /var over to /usr and created symbolic links. The rebooting itself is inconvenient, but periodically, the system will *not* come back up. I was able to get down to the co-location office and plug a monitor into the system when it failed to respond and saw this: ---------------- begin screen capture --------------------------- F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x173f) Invalid format >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: ---------------- end screen capture ------------------------------ The system was frozen at this point and a hard reset got it to come back up. The system is built around a Soyo ATX motherboard with a 600 MHz Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM, and a Western Digital WD300BB hard disk. Any ideas? This one really has me stumped since the crashes leave no clues (that I can find). Thanks in advance, Sonny Van Hook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message