From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 16 18:23:57 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 18:23:55 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 103BF37B400 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 18:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from shootthemlater.demon.co.uk ([194.222.93.84] helo=cerebus.parse.net) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 147TUP-000EPQ-0B; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 02:23:53 +0000 Received: from wbra0013.cognos.com ([10.0.0.3] helo=acm.org) by cerebus.parse.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 147SUg-000C11-00; Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:20:06 +0000 Message-ID: <3A3C148B.9B08542D@acm.org> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 01:19:07 +0000 From: David Goddard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Spontaneous rebooting problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, In the course of one week, we have had three FreeBSD stable boxes just reboot on us and I'm trying to work out what's going wrong. The reboots were at different times of day with machines at different physical locations, so I don't believe power outages were involved (although we're looking into any causes along those lines). I guess there may be a degree of concidence involved, but I really would like to see if there's any common factor here. The messages log show nothing before the reboot: [...] Dec 16 03:59:00 cassium /kernel: ipfw: Entry 306 cleared. Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993,1994 [...] Dec 16 04:20:02 cassium /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted One of the machines was built from 4.2 stable sources cvsupped Nov 23 at about 18:00 GMT, the others are similar. I don't believe any of the machines were particularly heavily loaded at the time. At least one of them had no (legitimately) logged on users. Any clues to what happened or pointers to how I can look into this further myself are greatly appreciated... Thanks, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message