From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 24 21:25:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207E81065674 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:25:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33F08FC16 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oo0zQ-00031f-4z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:25:04 +0200 Received: from 207.155.204.151.ptr.us.xo.net ([207.155.204.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:25:04 +0200 Received: from atkin901 by 207.155.204.151.ptr.us.xo.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:25:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Mark Atkinson Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:21:02 -0700 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.155.204.151.ptr.us.xo.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100810 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:25:06 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/10 10:29, Chris Maness wrote: > I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for > virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat. However I am > still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots. So it is not the > modules. I am thinking hardware. It has a temperature alarm that > sounds when it is hot, but since I have cleaned it out I have not had > any issues with heat. I am thinking bad processor/ram. It is > behaving the same way before/after the upgraded to the latest release. > What do you guys think? You can try the following ( I believe this is in 8-STABLE ) echo 'hw.mca.enabled="1"' >> /boot/loader.conf and reboot. If it's hardware supported machine check exception, then you may see which component has an issue on the console in the machine check output. - -Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx0N74ACgkQrDN5kXnx8yZfSgCeIrd2qXmatERuOhPwW2W6cqY0 FtEAnj3154huE/8aVl5W3zA22YjNw2UL =p002 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----