Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:18:42 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Ralf Folkerts <ralf.folkerts@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random reboots with FreeBSD-7 STABLE Message-ID: <20090310171842.GB28789@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <49B69763.3040108@gmx.de> References: <49B69763.3040108@gmx.de>
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--E39vaYmALEf/7YXx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:37:55PM +0100, Ralf Folkerts wrote: > Hi, >=20 > for quite a while I've been struggling with random reboots of my FBSD=20 > amd64-Box. >=20 > It *always* happens when I'm "in" X; usually while using firefox3. It=20 > may not happen 7 days but then three days in a row. Sounds like hardware trouble. =20 > So, I turn on the Machine (I don't start kdm/xdm), Log-On to a Text-Mode= =20 > Console, run startx. Then I start Firefox and surf to some news-sites.=20 > Them during scrolling in Firefox (it did happen once from Thunderbird=20 > but never e.g. from Netbeans) the screen gets black and the system=20 > reboots. In a very few cases the System didn't reboot but just hang and= =20 > had to be resetted. > In order to get some diagnostic info I connected a serial console to the= =20 > machine -- however, nothing re. the crash/reboot is being displayed on=20 > it. In the few cases when the box hung the serial console was also=20 > unresponsive. The serial console itself is working OK (i.e. the=20 > boot-loader is being displayed as are the boot-messages and also=20 > messages like the drm-ones when starting X and the "root Login" messages. >=20 > I'd really like to get rid of this problem -- however, is there anything= =20 > I can do in such a case? It could be a dying powersupply, or a loose cable. If you have a spare powersupply, swap it out. Or have it tested instead. Sometimes checking if all the cables are connected properly might help. You might want to look into this as well: > pid 1215 (nepomukservicestub), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --E39vaYmALEf/7YXx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkm2oPEACgkQEnfvsMMhpyVd9wCeLGgUVXU5BC3Q/KDCN3PQ+KY8 GbkAnRKz05XffrCrj8gnbYOVju2l+MmR =8tB9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E39vaYmALEf/7YXx--
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