Had this rebooting problem before for a while and it drove me NUTZ! Installed RedHat and FreeBSD and both rebooted periodically. Don't know if my solution will help or not, but what was causing my reboots was the system BIOS. The options for Power Management in the system BIOS should have some settings for the monitor as well as the hard drive. I was finding that the spinning down of the hard drive caused the machine to reboot. No traces in any error logs or anything... Hope that helps somebody...somewhere... :) Arthur Jim Mercer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Paweł Dubin wrote: > > > the first system runs 3.4-stable and gets spontaneous reboots infrequently, > > > and there are no messages (dmesg, console or syslog) indicating why it rebooted. > > > the new system runs 4.0-stable, doesn't have vinum, and is spontaneously > > > rebooting (several times in 48 hrs). again no messages indicting the problem. > > > > We have similar problem (the same configuration but RH 5.1) (I dont know what > > is vinum). It is probably from scsi board when we have 4 devices it reboots > > every 3 days. now with 2 devices every 2 weeks. > > > > It is probably caused by intel -> driver -> scsi cooperation, because on K6 > > system works ok. Maybe newer kernel with recognized pentium bugs. > > i wonder, it might actually be heat. > > in the first system, it was originally housed in an IBM PC 325 cabinet and > rebooted quite frequently, then it was moved to a 48VDC rackmount chassis, > with somewhat better airflow, and it rebooted less frequently. > > the new server is a rackmount case, but it doesn't have much in the way of > extra fans. > > is it possible the reboots we are seeing are due to some component overheating? > > > Sorry for my english > > your english is fine. > > -- > [ Jim Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 416 506-0654 ] > [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] > [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]
