From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 2 20:12:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from botbay.net (bsd.cs.wcupa.edu [144.26.28.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED2C214E96 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:12:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wcampbel@botbay.net) Received: from localhost (wcampbel@localhost) by botbay.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA22901; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 23:12:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wcampbel@botbay.net) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 23:12:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Walter Campbell To: Andreas Berg Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange reboots In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991003013420.00a73e70@atlantis.fukt.hk-r.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Andreas Berg wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE (990926-snapshot). The reason I > upgraded was that my old 3.2-STABLE got unstable and rebooted a little now > and then, just like it felt like it. Now, a couple of hours after the > installation of 3.3-STABLE, I get the same strange phenomenon, the box just > reboots. > I've had the same problems...all due to hardware. Machine would randomly reboot about once a week, then once every two days or so, finally once a day. Tried upgrading hte software, checked for possible heat problems, checked the RAM, all fine...Disabled the L2 cache, haven't had a single problem since (unless you count the machine room getting flooded by Hurricane Floyd). Most unusual things can be traced down to hardware problems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message