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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:03:29 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD current mailing list <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: contradictory: Automatic reboot in 15 seconds ...
Message-ID:  <20040707100328.GG12877@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.53.0407070919140.59767@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:33:36AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while PXE booting I ran into a panic and got this message:
> 
> --- cut ---
> ...
> panic: page fault
> 
> syncing disks, buffers remaining...
> done
> Uptime: 2s
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
> --> Press a key on the console to reboot,
> --> or switch off the system now.
> --- cut ---
> 
> 
> so what should I do now - press a key to abort or press a key to
> reboot?

Press a key to reboot - that's the last message.
Somehow the automtic reboot was aborted.

> Actually pressing a key seems to reboot the machine while not doing
> anything results in nothing happening - so the automatic reboot
> doesn't seem to happen. Perhaps some broken logic in shutdown_panic ?

A your system received a char to abort the automatic reboot.
E.g. a bad configured terminal server for serial acces may have send
a stop char.

-- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
bernd@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de



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