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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:43:11 -0500
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        John <papalia@udel.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spontaneous reboot
Message-ID:  <20000306234311.F70609@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000306231059.009498a0@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@udel.edu on Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:15:07PM -0500
References:  <4.1.20000306231059.009498a0@mail.udel.edu>

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On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:15:07PM -0500, John wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just had something rather odd (and quite troubling) occur. My system just
> spontaneously rebooted itself.  No good reason.  Nothing in the logs.
> Nothing. It's worrisome.  Everything is wrapped - inetd boots up with -l -w
> -W.  No hits in ipfw.log.  
> 
> What would cause this, and how can I track it down?  As for being
> repeatable, I don't know, and I hope not - it's the first time I can recall
> this happening.  Currently running 3.4-stable.  Last build/installworld was
> about 2 weeks ago.

Power surge/loss. Hardware overheated. Application bug. OS
bug. Someone at NSA accidently pushed the "Reboot John's Computer"
button.

Hard to say.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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