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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>
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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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