Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:33:13 +0100 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0 Message-ID: <op.wq3zxn038527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-UWtSANRMsOqwW9rJ6Eebta6=AiHeNO6fhPO0mhYhZiMmn4A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ-UWtSANRMsOqwW9rJ6Eebta6=AiHeNO6fhPO0mhYhZiMmn4A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:26:33 +0100, Marin Atanasov Nikolov <dnaeon@gmail.com> 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 > Memory chips gone bad? Power (or other) cables gone loose? Ronald.
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