From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 08:42:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA28305 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:42:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA28300 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:42:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA19329; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:41:12 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199611271641.KAA19329@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of a box. To: andrew@pubnix.net Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 10:41:12 -0600 (CST) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Andrew Webster" at Nov 27, 96 11:36:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > > > It was in the middle of checking /usr and it just totally flipped and > > spontaneously rebooted. > > > > Bearing in mind that the machine is slated for replacement, does anyone > > have any thoughts as to what might cause this? > > Have you tried it with the keybaord unplugged, perhaps the keyboard is > freaking out. Yes, the keyboard was actually unplugged (I have one KB/monitor for the whole rack). That is mildly unusual, usually the keyboard lives on that box due to the fact that it has more problems than most of the other boxes :-) but it has happened both with and without. Good idea though, ... JG