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Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:50:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Holt Grendal <holtor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Frequent Restarts
To: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
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I'm running a pretty customized kernel here. As far as
I can recall the only thing that changed in my kernel
configuration from 4.4 to 4.5 was removing the splash
pseudo-device. I've heard on this list that its not
needed for remote servers.

That could be the cause but I'm unable to make sense
of why. It must be something else.

Holt

--- Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Holt Grendal wrote:
> 
> >  Hi everyone,
> >
> >  Ever since upgrading to FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
> several
> >  servers have been randomly restarting themselves.
> >  The only relevent messages left in messages or
> console
> >  logs was:
> >
> >  Feb  9 20:25:09 phoenix /kernel: WARNING: / was
> not
> >  properly dismounted
> >
> >  I've had a few people tell me they had this
> problem
> >  too. They told me the problem dissapeared after
> their
> >  computers restarted 2 - 4 times randomly.
> >
> >  Its certaintly not a hardware issue.. all said
> servers
> >  ran for months and months with FreeBSD 4.4, 4.3,
> and
> >  previous versions without a single issue.
> 
> I've got a 4.2-STABLE box on a remote site that did
> exactly the same. I
> took out the SMB and I2C stuff from the kernel, and
> the spontaneous
> reboots stopped. Have upgraded it to 4.5-STABLE, no
> reboots so far.
> 
> 
> >  A hunch tells me that it has something to do with
> the
> >  filesystem changes included with 4.5 and
> softupdates.
> 
> Hmmm... I was able to reliably trigger the reboots
> by doing 'make world'
> or 'make buildworld' and so forth. The reboots
> occurred at random though,
> and once or twice the compile process completed. :-\
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Juha
> Take off every sig!
> 


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