On 08/05/14 10:02, Craig R. Skinner wrote:
Hi,A reliable box has begun to randomly reboot in the last couple of days. There's nothing obviously unusual in /var/log/* $ ls -ld /var/crash drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 512 Dec 24 2013 /var/crash/ $ ls -lA /var/crash total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5 Jul 30 2013 minfree I set up a 1 min cron job of sysctl | fgrep hw.sensors.lm1.temp & uptime The last one before a reboot was: hw.sensors.lm1.temp0=34.00 degC hw.sensors.lm1.temp2=33.50 degC 2:53PM up 31 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.19, 0.23 I'm guessing some bit of hardware is on it's way out, but which? $ ls -l /var/run/dmesg.boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3612 Aug 5 14:58 /var/run/dmesg.boot OpenBSD 5.4 (GENERIC) #37: Tue Jul 30 12:05:01 MDT 2013 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 128KB L2 cache) 635 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE,PERF real mem = 535228416 (510MB) avail mem = 515035136 (491MB)
So, a nice venerable P III.. I have several Dell's of that vintage all running well, after 10+ years. Me, I'd get the memtest CD and use that for a start. Easy. In decreasing order I'd say 5) motherboard problem, 4) power supply, 3) memory, 2) cabling failure, 1) disk controller. I did once have a really strange problem of crashing, which turned out to be the on-board IDE controller. I put a Siig sata controller in it and still works today. So a varient on )5. Don't forget about dust and around the fans. I'd take it outside and use compressed air of some kind to clean it. Good luck... --STeve Andre'
