From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 30 13:34:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freed.libdns.qc.ca (derby.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727A414F04 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spidey@libdns.qc.ca) Received: from localhost (spidey@localhost) by freed.libdns.qc.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id QAA03423; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:34:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spidey@libdns.qc.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: freed.libdns.qc.ca: spidey owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:34:14 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey Reply-To: Spidey To: Nathan Ahlstrom Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mysterious reboots... In-Reply-To: <19990330132206.B10215@winternet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I don't know if my reply was sent, but here I lost it so I send it again...] yes, i do have the splash pseudo-device in my kernel. This could be the cause of the reboots. I'll try to recompile a kernel without it. The problem is that it is very difficult to test as I don't know which conditions to recreate to make the event happen again. We'll see, with time. There's another thing I remarked, though. It's that it is not a normal reboot... normally, when the machine crashes (does it ever? :) or when I reboot, I almost immediatly get the startupt BIOS screen, but when these crashes occur, I hear the fan and all the box go down 'normally', but there is a slight pause (say 2 secs.) before the machine restarts. Weird, I tell ya... What's this splash device anyways? I put it there to test it and never got time to check out the doc or try it in any way... :( Thanks for the tip! On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: > Spidey wrote: > > (should this be cc-ed to stable?) > > > > I have something strange here that I cannot reproduce. I'm not even sure > > if it is os-related. > > > > Sometimes the machine simply reboots. X does not shut down, filesystems do > > not dismount correctly, _but_ there is an entry in wtmp: > > Do you have the splash screen pseudo-device in your kernel? > > Good Luck, > > Nathan > > -- > Nathan Ahlstrom FreeBSD: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > nrahlstr@winternet.com PGP Key ID: 0x67BC9D19 > When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this I can witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message