From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 21 17:12:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wallace.i.nutt.net.au (utopia.nutt.net.au [203.25.185.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2084A37BAA7 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 17:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hostmaster@mtloftyhistsoc.asn.au) Received: from localhost (jarrod@localhost) by wallace.i.nutt.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15235 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:47:49 +0930 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: wallace.i.nutt.net.au: jarrod owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:47:48 +0930 (CST) From: Jarrod X-Sender: jarrod@wallace.i.nutt.net.au To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Uncontrolable Rebooting 4.0-R 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 Hi, Using a 4.0-R base system with IPFIREWALL compiled into the kernel. Around every second day, this machine reboots for no reason. Im not at work when the machine reboots or I am and im too late. No error messages appear in /var/log/messages so I cant explain why. Is there any way of dumping messages sent to the console to a /var/log/console file so I can flick through it? On another matter that may or may not be related, when the machine boots up, the following appears at the bottom of the screen and dmesg. ad0: 4125MB [8940/15/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a ad0: READ command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: READ command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: READ command timeout - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: READ command timeout - resetting ata0-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA ata0-master: timeout waiting for command=ef s=00 e=00 ad0: trying fallback to PIO mode ata0: resetting devices .. done WARNING: / was not properly dismounted It wasnt properly dismounted as the machine has rebooted thismorning. This reboot was quick, printing everything above, on other ocassions the 'ad0: READ command timeout - resetting' flashes on the screen 750+ times (according to the 'last message repeated xxx times' in /var/log/messages). Whats the cause of all this? Cheers, Jarrod -- Jarrod Sayers (hostmaster@mtloftyhistsoc.asn.au) Information Technology Manager Mount Lofty Districts Historical Society, Inc. http://www.mtloftyhistsoc.asn.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message