From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 13:33:23 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 DEA86236 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:33:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A30B85D for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:33:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TwC4I-0007Av-MC for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:33:15 +0100 Received: from [81.21.138.17] (helo=ronaldradial.versatec.local) by smtp.greenhost.nl with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TwC4I-0006Db-S6 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:33:14 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0 References: Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:33:13 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.12 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Score: 0.8 X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Scan-Signature: d58e29c6f4e42f76447094ef3ccb23d2 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 13:33:23 -0000 On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:26:33 +0100, Marin Atanasov Nikolov 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.