Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-21 Thread Ma
It is really a bug. But in my case it seems to be the hardware problem after serval days fight with this crash. The old server even crashes before booting to the login prompt. :( I have to changes to another server now. 2006/12/20, Martin Blapp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Maybe you are

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Ma
I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is added in your rc.conf? -- Ma Jie 2006/11/19, Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joe Holden wrote: Stefan Bethke wrote: If the system has ACPI, you might get

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Dominic Marks
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:48:47 + Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ma wrote: I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is added in your rc.conf? -- Ma Jie Hi, I used the rc.conf values

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Joe Holden
Ma wrote: I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is added in your rc.conf? -- Ma Jie Hi, I used the rc.conf values as set out in rc,conf(5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep crash /etc/defaults/rc.conf

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Joe Holden wrote: Ma wrote: I have almost the same reboots on my server. :( And it may reboot serval times a day. I'd like to know how to get crash dumps? What is added in your rc.conf? -- Ma Jie Hi, I used the rc.conf values as set out in rc,conf(5) [EMAIL PROTECTED] grep crash

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe Holden wrote: It has coped sufficiently during the extensive number of make/buildworlds and day to day use, nothing seems to trigger it, its fairly random. How about memtest86? You should also leave it for a few hours. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-12-19 Thread Ma
I'm also using this version of BSD on SMP. And just now, I rebuild another verion 6.1-RELEASE-p11. The system crashed again within one hour. I'd like to try to use Uni-Processor mode to try again. Any one know how to set the system to one processor without recompile kernel or remove hardware? --

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-18 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Stefan Bethke wrote: If the system has ACPI, you might get some temperature information from the sysctl hw.acpi.thermal OIDs. No acpi whatsoever, it is a very stripped down machine, looks like a blade or something. If the hard disk is recent enough, it might have a

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Dominic Marks
On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:37:58 + Joe Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 17.11.2006 um 08:05 schrieb Joe Holden: Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I have with 11. How do you know it's rebbots as opposed to crashes/panics? Enable

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Dominic Marks wrote: See if you can get temperature readings from the hardware. Is the system busy? Hi Dominic, there is no sensors on said machine, it was up for 150 odd days running linux prior to the change. -- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joseph Koshy
jh Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I jh have with 11. jh I have included as much information as I can think of, if jh there is anything else I can provide, please ask. Is the machine stable otherwise? Does it pass its builtin diagnostics? A good way to check for bad

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Joseph Koshy wrote: Is the machine stable otherwise? Does it pass its builtin diagnostics? Hi Joseph, It has coped sufficiently during the extensive number of make/buildworlds and day to day use, nothing seems to trigger it, its fairly random. Ta, Joe -- finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 17.11.2006 um 14:35 schrieb Joe Holden: Dominic Marks wrote: See if you can get temperature readings from the hardware. Is the system busy? Hi Dominic, there is no sensors on said machine, it was up for 150 odd days running linux prior to the change. If the system has ACPI, you might

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Joseph Koshy wrote: Is the machine stable otherwise? Does it pass its builtin diagnostics? Hi Joseph, It has coped sufficiently during the extensive number of make/buildworlds and day to day use, nothing seems to trigger it, its fairly random. Ta, Joe Also, I cvsup'd and

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Stefan Bethke wrote: If the system has ACPI, you might get some temperature information from the sysctl hw.acpi.thermal OIDs. No acpi whatsoever, it is a very stripped down machine, looks like a blade or something. If the hard disk is recent enough, it might have a temperature sensors as

(Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-16 Thread Joe Holden
Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I have with 11. I have included as much information as I can think of, if there is anything else I can provide, please ask. dmesg: claire# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988,

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-16 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 17.11.2006 um 08:05 schrieb Joe Holden: Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I have with 11. How do you know it's rebbots as opposed to crashes/panics? Enable crashdumps in rc.conf and see if you get a dump. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fon +49 170

Re: (Seemingly) Spontaneous rebooting

2006-11-16 Thread Joe Holden
Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 17.11.2006 um 08:05 schrieb Joe Holden: Hi, i'm observing random reboots on a dedicated machine I have with 11. How do you know it's rebbots as opposed to crashes/panics? Enable crashdumps in rc.conf and see if you get a dump. Stefan --Stefan Bethke [EMAIL