From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 15 0:26:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-228.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D3337B416 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DE78E66C76; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:26:55 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 00:26:55 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: charon@seektruth.org Cc: Kris Kennaway , Baldur Gislason , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontanious reboots Message-ID: <20020215002655.A19761@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <02021417352704.04045@germanium> <20020214094353.A12018@xor.obsecurity.org> <200202150311.g1F3Brh29217@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200202150311.g1F3Brh29217@midway.uchicago.edu>; from dsyphers@uchicago.edu on Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:11:56PM -0600 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 --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 09:11:56PM -0600, David Syphers 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 :) >=20 > There have been a lot of people reporting things like this (including me)= =20 > recently on various lists. I don't have the option of trying to replace= =20 > hardware, but I ran memtest and didn't find any errors. Would it be comm= on=20 > for a system that has been running for 6 days (as both ours were) to sudd= enly > overheat without a fan breaking? Of course, there's a nonzero chance it's a FreeBSD problem -- but, seriously, almost all of the "spontaneous reboot" problem reports which make it to FreeBSD support lists eventually turn out to be hardware-related, when the submitter is convinced to go and actually test it. In particular, memtest isn't a foolproof method of testing memory..there are just too many things it cannot pick up. Physically swap out the memory..it's the only way to eliminate that possibility. Kris --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8bMZPWry0BWjoQKURAp3YAKC8vqR2gZg2fWgxYeK2Vg09vvoIkgCg5ll/ YnlMYa8pD7DyJfdf28QcUmc= =zgn3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message