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Date:      Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:28:57 -0500
From:      Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu>
To:        Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>
Cc:        freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Diagnosing reboot under load
Message-ID:  <436E7599.9090003@cs.earlham.edu>
In-Reply-To: <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com>
References:  <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com>

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Micah wrote:

>
> My desktop system just started doing this last night.  I was upgrading 
> Gnome using the handy shell script they provide.  It looks like 
> sometime around 11:30pm the computer reset.  This morning I'm trying 
> to reinstall all the software that got lost in last night's reset and 
> I get another reset in the middle of compiling.  The last message in 
> /var/log/messages before reboot is:
> Nov  6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001
> Nov  6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
> Nov  6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
>
> I just ran memtest86+ and there's no memory errors.  I'm guessing it's 
> a hardware issue, but how do I diagnose it?


Could it be a bad power supply? Try swapping in another one and see what 
happens.

-- 
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/


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