From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 11:44:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DAB37B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:44:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F70143FA3 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:44:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id C10A8253B0; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:44:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:44:21 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel To: Steve Warwick Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! Message-ID: <20030324194421.GB716@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PLING_QUERY,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) 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 On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:20:56AM -0800, Steve Warwick wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? Yes. > > My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they did > not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going of for a few > months now -- intermittent restarts that no one claims responsibility for. > The machine is probably rebooting itself. > This is a new machine with the latest OS (4.7) so I can't blame a faulty > power supply or something like -- I have more fans than Britney in the > server, for HD and CPU so I don't think it's a temp problem. > > > Thoughts, suggestions? > > TIA > Steve > Why can't you blame the power supply? Just because it's new? It's new is not really a valid troubleshooting technique, especially when you have the evidence that something is broken staring you in the face. I'm not trying to say you don't have a software issue, but in my experience with FreeBSD, if you're having reboots I start looking for faulty hardware right away. My first test is always to swap out the RAM, and then go from there. One of the things I really like about FreeBSD is that it does not play nicely with flakey, old, broken, or otherwise fux0rd hardware. I don't care if it's brand new, worked fine in windows AND linux, or any other excuse, if you are seeing reboots that's a pretty good sign there's flakey hardware in the box. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message