*BSD News Article 89996


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!204.191.213.61!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!news-w.ans.net!newsfeeds.ans.net!lantana.singnet.com.sg!peony.singnet.com.sg!nuscc.nus.sg!iss.nus.sg!not-for-mail
From: kongwah@iss.nus.sg (Wan Kong Wah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: mysterious reboot
Date: 24 Feb 1997 09:05:35 GMT
Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, National University Of Singapore.
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <5erlkv$kbv@holodeck.iss.nus.sg>
NNTP-Posting-Host: otter.iss.nus.sg
X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36018


Hi,

I am running an licence plate recognition system
on a Pentium running FreeBSD and using the Matrox
Meteor card. An external trigger comes via the
serial port and the computer s/w invokes the digitizer
to grab a frame. The frame is saved on an remotely
NFS mounted directories, where another recognition
process will time-poll to grab the image for
recognition.

I have reboot problems for no apparent reasons.
The rebooting occurs about every 3-4 days. I am
thinking that it must be because of the lpr s/w I
am running. What are the things I should be watching
for?

I am also thinking of directing the reboot error
messages onto /var/log files, via syslogd. But I
would like to check out whether this reboot stuff
is already a well-known problem with you guys.

Would appreciate any help,

Thanks and kind regards,

Kong Wah