From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 12:03:29 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAABC778 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnaeon@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CA8F239 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:03:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f54.google.com with SMTP id je9so1957746bkc.27 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:03:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=V784y7syuUjaVDe5h4f7OZ/PsKA7tXJ5Jeq7FEgSfE8=; b=lG/q5fbz6WCwF5IYiTuXAhnyRp/zHm79umEK9ZczN7ltL2tEN6VZFCGL2dVm/HL7ip CnjO38YXDNM29A9gLhIU2CVKDgPBjbsteavib08jTAsnwnZ+20unHVVn2VO+rAvUaSs0 IgfS6RyKrIxaruasR0q24RcGmVvtmUhbKHJYxKf6EJbQVMLknv1dnUEcm8UB5qULFBrn J9z6nDO2JH5Yv5GA94/3IvTbH9JHZeSsKKv9oXyiSUqE7URjayooIWZzmnucpBep3fzv AG44RLhm14ukoSA6W0gs+XWJULzIta4QxAD/X1VYs48AtUXKk03nUW7j8Bgfry3BnBC8 6duA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.204.9.22 with SMTP id j22mr2413911bkj.114.1358510603216; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:03:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.70.139 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:03:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:03:23 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0 From: Marin Atanasov Nikolov To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: ml-freebsd-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:03:29 -0000 Hi Thomas, Yes, I'm still running on 9.0-RELEASE. The strange thing here is that it was running fine for a couple of months without evening having a single reboot and a few weeks ago it all started. I am also planning to update to 9.1, probably I will do it in the next days. Hopefully the update will fix this. Thanks for the feedback. Regards, Marin On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Hello, > > > Usually I ask questions on the mailing lists when things are bad and > can't > > find much info about the problem myself. This is one of these cases now > :) > > > Recently (started something like a week or two ago) my system which was > > running months without any issues spontaneously rebooted. Nothing in the > > logs about the reboot. > > > Then a few days ago it rebooted by itself a few more times, sometimes a > 3-4 > > times a day without a clear reason in the logs of why this happened. > > > I'm monitoring the CPU temp, load, network traffic and other metrics in > the > > monitoring system, but there's nothing strange there - no load, no high > > temp, no high traffic or anything that could explain why this is > happening. > > > The machine is connected to a UPS, so I thought this could be causing > this, > > but I've tested the UPS and battery and they are all fine. > > > Here's what last(1) says about today's reboot: > > > --- > > boot time Fri Jan 18 00:29 > > --- > > > It's like the system has been rebooted normally, but that isn't the case. > > Sometimes it's logged as "crash". I've enabled crash dumps, but still > > nothing in /var/crash after the failure. > > > The only error I'm able to find in /var/log/messages during boot-time is > > this: > > > --- > > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: acpi0: <_ASUS_ Notebook> on motherboard > > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Error: [RAMB] Namespace lookup > > failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20110527/psargs-392) > > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, Could not > > execute arguments for [RAMW] (Region) (20110527/nsinit-380) > > --- > > > Not sure if this is the root cause for this, cause I've seen this error > > before and at that time there were no reboots happening (months ago). > Also > > I find it strange that it says Notebook above, as this is a desktop > > machine... > > > And currently I'm out of ideas. Could you guys give any advice or hints > > what else I could check and sort this out? > > > Thanks and regards, > > Marin > > > -- > > Marin Atanasov Nikolov > > I had something like that with FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE amd64 on a Sandy Bridge > system, Intel i7. > > It started within two days after building and installing FreeBSD > 9.0-RELEASE. > > My remedy, without consulting the emailing lists, was to switch to the > STABLE branch. > > New computer hardware, needing the updates before the next release, was > part of the reason for switching to STABLE. > > Now is post-9.1-RELEASE. Are you still on 9.0-RELEASE? > > Tom > -- Marin Atanasov Nikolov dnaeon AT gmail DOT com http://www.unix-heaven.org/