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From: bouyer@bsdtest.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Mysterious 'autonomous' reboots under NetBSD ???
Date: 22 Jan 1994 16:17:22 GMT
Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
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References: <2hc3rd$qmb@wzv.win.tue.nl> <hastyCJqqoC.750@netcom.com> <1994Jan16.215309.7660@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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In article <1994Jan16.215309.7660@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) writes:
|> 
|> Aroooo.
|> 
|> 	I've got NetBSD running on my 486/66/Micronics/IDE/16 Meg
|> 	machine, with XFree 2.0.
|> 
|> 	Every now and then (not often enough to notice a pattern)
|> 	the machine just up and reboots itself. Outa nowhere.
|> 	It's like some crazy episode of Star Trek or something...
|> 
|> 	Has anyone ever had this problem? Seen it? Know of it? 
|> 	What causes it? How to fix it?
|> 
|> 	Last time it happened, I had just set up the slip interface, 
|> 	ended the cu job, and typed 'ls' at my shell....
|> 

I've the same king of problems. Whe have about 60 pc running NetBSD here, whith
the user's home directory on several nfs servers. This problem appear always 
when accessing to an nfs-mounted directory (ls, 'tab' in tcsh, ...).
Since i've an scsi drive on my machine (about 5 month), i don't use nfs any more, 
and i don't have any problems.

Were you in an nfs-mounted directory when you typed 'ls' ?

As there is no message from the kernel, it's verry hard to find the reason of
this problem.


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Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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