From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 14 20:21: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26F537B402 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 20:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (adsl-65-42-132-165.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [65.42.132.165]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g1F4Kuh02679; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:20:56 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200202150420.g1F4Kuh02679@midway.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: charon@seektruth.org To: "Jesse Gross" Subject: Re: Spontanious reboots Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:20:58 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: References: <004101c1b5d1$4b597230$0200005a@jesse1> In-Reply-To: <004101c1b5d1$4b597230$0200005a@jesse1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday 14 February 2002 09:31 pm, Jesse Gross wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:43 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:35:27PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > > > > This box has been spontaniously rebooting for a while, we've > > > > replaced most of the hardware > > > > > > What hardware have you not tested/replaced? Consider doing so :) > > > > There have been a lot of people reporting things like this > > (including me) > > recently on various lists. I don't have the option of trying > > to replace > > hardware, but I ran memtest and didn't find any errors. > > Would it be common > > for a system that has been running for 6 days (as both ours > > were) to suddenly > > overheat without a fan breaking? > > Definitely not normal for the hardware to fail after 6 days. Is there > anything runs after 6 days that might put an extra load on the power > supply? No. The SETI client was running, but the whole time. Then I saw other people reporting crashes with similar errors to mine, and saw something about a softupdates problem that seemed to have similar errors. The vagueness is due to by being extremely busy at the time and only glancing through my mail :) I haven't yet had another crash, and I upgraded to -stable (from 4.5-R) last night. -David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message