From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 11 19:21:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from newman2.bestweb.net (newman2.bestweb.net [209.94.102.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6712F37B4DA for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from okeeffe.bestweb.net (okeefe.bestweb.net [209.94.100.110]) by newman2.bestweb.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA912330C; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:17:18 -0500 (EST) Received: by okeeffe.bestweb.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id F07F59EFEB; Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:12:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:08:10 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Jacob Frelinger Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bizzare problem.. Message-Id: <20020212021214.F07F59EFEB@okeeffe.bestweb.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Jacob Frelinger wrote: > I have a new current system that is having the strangest problem. > using vi or its clones often abruptly powers the system down, no panics, > no syslog messages. the computer is an ABIT BP6 w/ 2 500 mhz cellerons > (NOT OVERCLOCKED), two harddrives, a cdrom drive and 256M ram. You aren't using a Linux version of vi, are you? It so happens a common freebsd system call maps to linux reboot() .... Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message