Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:18:19 +0000 From: Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reboot DURING a portupgrade Message-ID: <d014caa50501301018228fc653@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41FD1DBF.7080700@taborandtashell.net> References: <d014caa50501300626104a3e02@mail.gmail.com> <41FD1DBF.7080700@taborandtashell.net>
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Why will it have suddenly started doing it? It was fine a week ago. On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 09:47:43 -0800, Tabor Kelly <tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net> wrote: > Ben Haysom wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am running FBSD 5.3-CURRENT on a Duron 700Mhz 384Mb RAM. > > > > When I do (as root) > > > > #portupgrade -a > > > > it comes back with: > > > > Stale dependency: acroread-5.10_1 --> linux_base-8-8.0_6 -- manually > > run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. > > > > So I do > > > > #portupgrade -a -O > > > > and *everytime* it reboots itself before the portupgrade is complete. > > Not a clean reboot though - it doesn't dismount filesystems before it goes. > > > > I can't work out what it's doing. > > There is nothing relevant in /var/log/messages. > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > Ben. > > Like Karol Kwiatkowski suggested, I would say you have about a 99% > chance this is a hardware failure. In addition to what Karol suggested, > it could also be a faulty power supply. Also, I would say look into the > hardware in this order: > > 1. RAM > 2. Power Supply > 3. CPU > > Note: The above is just my personal opinion. > > -- > > Tabor Kelly > tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net > http://tabor.taborandtashell.net >
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