From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 22 17:31:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02914 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:31:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02901 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:31:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) id TAA01842; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:30:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:30:54 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com From: Conrad Sabatier To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Dec-98 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > Today the box spontaneously rebooted twice. Both time I was running X and > downloading with Netscape... Update the sources one would say... Mayhaps, > were it not that the same thing happened to me under CURRENT last sunday: > mouse froze up and all screen activity was stopped until it resetted also > whilst running X, Netscape and doing disk access/downloading. > > Also, nothing logged in /var/log/messages so it's a female dog to > trace... > > I might be wrong on this, but this seems too much for a coincedence. > Especially since I have been able to do it again. > > We do have 3-5 other FreeBSD boxen here, so how do I set up some sort of > serial console to check what's happening? Because I really want to see > what's been causing this... > > Any other ideas as to trace are welcome See section 22 of the handbook -- "Kernel debugging" http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook298.html#643 -- Conrad Sabatier "You've got to have a gimmick if your band sucks." -- Gary Giddens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message