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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!world1.bellatlantic.net!news From: dmm125@bellatlantic.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sporadic reboots?!? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:19:41 -0700 Organization: Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions Lines: 24 Message-ID: <33588E2D.2FAA@bellatlantic.net> References: <5iuist$h8h@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: client201-122-11.bellatlantic.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02E (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39316 Gunnar Pruessner wrote: > > Hi! > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 on my machine. > Recently I saw things like this in /var/log/messages: > Apr 14 14:29:43 nil /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted. > [...] > Apr 14 21:02:31 nil /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted. > > Nobody pushed reset and I am helpless. There is no heavy load on this > machine, all I can imagine is a problem with power supply - but probably > there are other reasons why my machine did these "sporadic reboots". > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Gunnar One possibility: kernel panic - machine automatically reboots when the kernel is panicked. I think this may be the problem. The cause of the panic (if this is what happened) is that some program caught sig 11. Sig 11's can be caused by insufficient memory, bad memory, or improperly mounted or corrupt swap partition. Hope this helps. Donn