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From: Martin Tournoy <carpetsmoker@gmail.com>
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Cc: Rob <europa100@comcast.net>, freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots/ what causes these in general?
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You might want to check if your power cables are all firmly and
properly connected, both those on the outside and inside.

You can also try running from a live-cd, or another harddisk with
another installation and see if the problem still occurs, if it does,
you know it's a hardware problem and not software...

Replace the power supply, maybe it's broken..


My experience is that checking for hardware problems before software
problems is the fastest way to fix something like this (example: a few
weeks back I spent a hour getting my floppy drive to work only to
discover the power cable wasn't connected, DUH!)

On 05/12/05, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:04:05AM -0800, Rob wrote:
>
> > The idea of running Mozilla or Firefox from a terminal was a very good =
one.  I am getting an error message:  (Gecko:40685) Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_pro=
perty_get(): length value has wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLON=
G?)
> >
> > I will run that by one of the mozilla.or  lists.
>
> That's harmless.
>
> > But I am very curious what causes FreeBSD to reboot immediately?
>
> Hardware problems, generally.  Search the archives for extensive
> discussion.
>
> Kris
>
>
>