Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:51:04 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Unclean Reboot For No Apparent Reason Message-ID: <200503122051.05166.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <d014caa5050312075947122fdc@mail.gmail.com> References: <d014caa50503070929239ee860@mail.gmail.com> <20050312093345.233739c4@vixen42.local.lan> <d014caa5050312075947122fdc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 12 March 2005 07:59 am, Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:33:45 -0600, Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:29:17 +0000 > > Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > A while ago I asked about my 5.3 machine which has taken to > > > rebooting itself during a full portupgrade.Doesn't shut down > > > properly - just resets. > > > > > > I was advised to try a few things. > > > > > > I've done memtest86 from CD, let it do 5 passes and it found no > > > problems. I unplugged both CDs and the Floppy, and tried it, but > > > still did the same. cpuburn seems fine. > > > doing mbmon whilst executing the portupgrade -a command shows the > > > temperature get to around 42.5 before it resets, but it can vary. > > > > > > I'm stuck now... any ideas? > > > Ben Haysom > > > > Memory tests only proove that that the memory is good, not that the > > hardware the ram is connected to is good. The same for cpuburn. The > > best stress test is running a make buildword, a make install for > > scilab, and a find /. If that does not do it, it is most likely a > > intermitently flakey power supply. > > those things do not do it. > but the maachine is always on and only ever resets during portupgrade > -a. every time. Well, you might try logging the output and seeing if it's failing at the same point each time - try it more than once, logging to two different files. If it is, then you have a pretty good idea what's going on. If not, it's probably a hardware problem (though possibly not). - jt
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