From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 4 13:52:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD70714D31 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 13:52:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-108.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.108] (may be forged)) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA23486; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:51:40 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37F9135B.9DEDB85@airnet.net> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 15:51:39 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Campbell Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange reboots References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Walter Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Andreas Berg wrote: > > > I recently installed FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE (990926-snapshot). The reason I > > upgraded was that my old 3.2-STABLE got unstable and rebooted a little now > > and then, just like it felt like it. Now, a couple of hours after the > > installation of 3.3-STABLE, I get the same strange phenomenon, the box just > > reboots. > > > I've had the same problems...all due to hardware. Machine would randomly > reboot about once a week, then once every two days or so, finally once a > day. Tried upgrading hte software, checked for possible heat problems, > checked the RAM, all fine...Disabled the L2 cache, haven't had a single > problem since (unless you count the machine room getting flooded by > Hurricane Floyd). Most unusual things can be traced down to hardware > problems. Ah, now that's a great way to get replacement parts / better equipment. But how to get the firehose into the machine room.... -- Kris Kirby ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message