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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.PBI.net!decwrl!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!uknet!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots Date: 2 Jul 1996 00:35:04 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4race8$pu@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Dts2HJ.3ps.E.fourthgen@fourthgen.fourthgen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Tom Greenwalt (tomg@fourthgen.fourthgen.com) wrote: : I've been running FreeBSD since April 1995, first 2.0R and then around : Dec switched to 2.1R. Everything has been running fine till recently. : The last couple weeks or so the system reboots occasionaly, always when : I not there to see what happens (naturally). No hardware changes have : been made since the ungrade to 2.1R and the system is on a UPS/Line : conditioner, so I'm fairly sure the power isn't the problem. : Is there a log or something that I can look at that would catch panics : or anything that I can watch to give me a clue about the reboots? You might want to have a look in /var/cron/log. Are you getting double entries ? Have you got stuff in /var/cron/tabs & /etc/crontab ? This seemed to upset my machine quite a bit - the problems were to do with corrupt vnodes - I never figured out why (some temporary consistency problem I guess). If this isn't the case, try putting "options DDB" in you config file and rebuilding your kernel. It should make the system drop into the debugger when it GPFs (or whatever). -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....