From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 22 22:01:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02217 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:01:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02180 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 22:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zsd25-00053O-00; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 01:24:13 +0000 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 01:24:12 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Message-ID: <19981223012412.A19415@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19981222190829.B11776@scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > I will try that just to verify it not to be the problem ;) Just shows that the only spontaneous reboots I've seen were caused by hardware. With Windows, on the other hand... oh I won't go into that now... > the weird part is, I think I can recreate the problem by doing the same things, > starting X, starting Netscape and download something... This will trash the PC > within a few seconds/minutes... Any hints on how to spot remote what's screwing > it up? Is the kernel panicking? If so, have you enabled crash dumps? If not, you may want to try that at least (with a -g kernel to analyze the dump) provided you have a swap partition big enough to hold the dump. And have you tried switching to the console after starting the download, to see if anything is printed there? -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message