Re: Error Message Upon Reboot

2006-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 15:21:13 -0400 (EDT) Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following error message suddenly appeared after I booted up my system. The PC is connected to a small LAN. I Googled but was not able to find out what the message is suppose to mean. //Error Message

Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-12 Thread Christopher McGee
Andy Reitz wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christopher McGee wrote: The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing reboot, it syncs

Hard locks after dirty reboot

2006-04-12 Thread Joe Eversole
to, this wouldn't cause a problem... but the last 3 power outages have caused reboot failures. I will pull the box from it's headless location, plug in a keyboard and monitor, and boot it up. Bootloader works, the boot menu comes up (where it asks if you want single user mode, etc). It comes up and starts

Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-11 Thread Christopher McGee
The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing reboot, it syncs disks, then gives the messages: All buffers synced. Uptime: ##m##s

Re: Reboot hangs on xeon server

2006-04-11 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Christopher McGee wrote: The server I have is using an Intel SE7501CW2 server board with 1 Xeon 2.0Ghz processor. It's got a Mylex AcceleRAID 170 card with 6 - 36GB scsi drives. When I reboot the machine, via ctrl-alt-del, or typing reboot, it syncs disks, then gives

Panic/reboot - a little help.

2006-04-09 Thread Laurence Sanford
info: [drm] Initialized mga 3.2.1 20051102 Also, this message comes up when the system saves the vmcore: Reboot after panic: Page Fault Thanks in advance for the assistance with this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: Panic/reboot - a little help.

2006-04-09 Thread fbsd_user
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Panic/reboot - a little help. My desktop box, which has run very stable for a couple years now using which ever version of FreeBSD I've been running at the time, has developed a sudden and alarming need to panic. I have two vmcore files at this point, but I'm unsure how

RE: Panic/reboot - a little help.

2006-04-09 Thread Laurence Sanford
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Panic/reboot - a little help. My desktop box, which has run very stable for a couple years now using which ever version of FreeBSD I've been running at the time, has developed a sudden and alarming need to panic. I have two vmcore

No auto reboot after panic

2006-03-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Setup: Dell 2850 running i386 FreeBSD 5.4-p5 (or so), ACPI enabled and apparently working (shutdown -p or -r work fine). After a kernel panic, the console showed Automatic reboot in 60 seconds or press any key to interrupt, (or words to that effect), but actually the machine just sat

How to reinitialize psm0 without reboot?

2006-03-25 Thread Lena
and attempts to start moused again fail: Mar 23 09:13:04 bedside moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: Device not configured How to reinitialize/configure /dev/psm0 without reboot? 5.4-RELEASE-p3 with some security patches. Thanks, Lena ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How to reinitialize psm0 without reboot?

2006-03-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: Input/output error and attempts to start moused again fail: Mar 23 09:13:04 bedside moused: unable to open /dev/psm0: Device not configured How to reinitialize/configure /dev/psm0 without reboot? 5.4-RELEASE-p3 with some security patches. Thanks, Lena

Re: Mysterious reboot, suspecting hardware issue

2006-02-28 Thread Robert Slade
of the various servers on my network. It's about time when amanda reaches full speed and the machine may be busy doing some high gzip compress. The first reboot occured while I was running 4.10-RELEASE-p19 so it cannot be related to the version of FreeBSD. That machine has been running like

Mysterious reboot, suspecting hardware issue

2006-02-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
full speed and the machine may be busy doing some high gzip compress. The first reboot occured while I was running 4.10-RELEASE-p19 so it cannot be related to the version of FreeBSD. That machine has been running like that for about one year without any problem. I set dumpdev=/dev/rda0s1b

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-22 Thread Robin Vley
Robert Huff wrote: Robert, I have a -CURRENT machine - P4, 512mb RAM, SCSI disks, de-driver ethernet, all mainstream hardware - that has this problem. Since early last year (maybe longer) it will occasionally reboot. Actually, I had it on three machines now. First on a P4 I leased

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
Olivier Nicole mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/log/messages just shows a user connectig via pop, and then the next line is the machine booting. Does the reboot correspond to the rainstorm? Do you have UPS? If time matches and no UPS I'd highly suspect a micro power faillure

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Alex de Kruijff
this before. I haven't added any new hardware in a very long time. I did upgrade mysql this morning via portupgrade, however. The system appears to have crashed, as dmesg shows that the various filesystems weren't unmounted correctly upon reboot, but aside from that single error, nothing else

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
and haven't ever experienced anything like this before. I haven't added any new hardware in a very long time. I did upgrade mysql this morning via portupgrade, however. The system appears to have crashed, as dmesg shows that the various filesystems weren't unmounted correctly upon reboot

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Tamouh H.
correctly upon reboot, but aside from that single error, nothing else points to what the problem was. /var/log/messages just shows a user connectig via pop, and then the next line is the machine booting. We are having a pretty good rainstorm, but nothing else seems to have lost power

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
../../compile/SERVER make depend make make install #if all went well: reboot The system will then come back up with tuned parameters, allowing more in/outbound connections and better packethandling. Before I make these changes, I would like to just get a second opinion from the list about

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
save the file, and follow these steps: /usr/sbin/config -g SERVER cd ../../compile/SERVER make depend make make install #if all went well: reboot The system will then come back up with tuned parameters, allowing more in/outbound connections and better packethandling. Before I

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Robin Vley
: the result is like someone pulls the plug and puts it back in. No logs, no dumps, no nothing. And completely normal operation right before the reboot. Pretty annoying. I've had it on 2 machines, different hardware so far. First I expected hardware, but now I moved everything to a freshly

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
options NMBUFS=40960 save the file, and follow these steps: /usr/sbin/config -g SERVER cd ../../compile/SERVER make depend make make install #if all went well: reboot The system will then come back up with tuned parameters, allowing more in/outbound connections and better

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Tamouh H.
Well, the server is an email/web server primarily. Not a huge load, but I want to be hardened against DOS attacks...would these help? If you are looking to harden your server, this might be helpful. Though a bit outdates, it still holds true for most part:

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-16 15:18, Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-16 14:32, Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouter Spierenburg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.maxfiles=65535

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Huff
hardware - that has this problem. Since early last year (maybe longer) it will occasionally reboot. No warning, no panic, no core-dump, just - bang. If I was lucky it would - sometimes - freeze or degrade X a few seconds before the reboot. The shortest period between events was less than an hour

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
even for sustained periods of time. Did you do some disk stress test? The hardware problem could be somwhere else than the MB. Or network if your anti-spam rely on some network check? It would be nice that you set-up your system (how?) so that it does not reboot in case of failure, so you'd have

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
that it does not reboot in case of failure, so you'd have some information on the screen. Olivier Yes, I ran the unixbench port (2 instances of it) as well as the stress port for about 4 hours. I think the hardware is fine, I believe, at least at this point, that it was simply a micro-power

Mysterious reboot

2006-02-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
did upgrade mysql this morning via portupgrade, however. The system appears to have crashed, as dmesg shows that the various filesystems weren't unmounted correctly upon reboot, but aside from that single error, nothing else points to what the problem was. /var/log/messages just shows a user

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
/var/log/messages just shows a user connectig via pop, and then the next line is the machine booting. Does the reboot correspond to the rainstorm? Do you have UPS? If time matches and no UPS I'd highly suspect a micro power faillure, that other machines could over go, but that this specific

Powerfail/reboot, now inbound ppp not working

2006-02-05 Thread stan
I've got a ppp over ssh tunnel from work, that's initiated from the remote end by a cron task. Friday night we lost power at our house. Most of the machines are on UPS's, so I'm failry certain I got them shutdown normally (it was the middle of the night so I might have messed up). In any case,

System time suddenly changed after reboot.

2006-01-10 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Running 5.3-RELEASE. After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year 2020! I did the best I could with the resulting mess, but I am curious

Re: System time suddenly changed after reboot.

2006-01-10 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:01 +, Scott Ballantyne wrote: Running 5.3-RELEASE. After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year 2020

Re: System time suddenly changed after reboot.

2006-01-10 Thread Mark Ovens
Scott Ballantyne wrote: Running 5.3-RELEASE. After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year 2020! I did the best I could

Re: System time suddenly changed after reboot.

2006-01-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 10, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Andreas Rudisch wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:01 +, Scott Ballantyne wrote: Running 5.3-RELEASE. After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my horror that the system

Re: Can't reboot

2005-12-06 Thread Martin Tournoy
does the halt command work? and the shutdown command? On 05/12/05, Benjamin Sobotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! The messages seem fine to me. However, I have no clue why it doesn't reboot. :) Ben On Monday 05 December 2005 03:59, Jose Borquez wrote: I attempted to reboot my pc using

Re: Can't reboot

2005-12-06 Thread Allen
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:50:55AM +, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: Hi! The messages seem fine to me. However, I have no clue why it doesn't reboot. :) Try installing windows. ;) Ben On Monday 05 December 2005 03:59, Jose Borquez wrote: I attempted to reboot my pc using FreeBSD 5.4

Re: Can't reboot

2005-12-05 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi! The messages seem fine to me. However, I have no clue why it doesn't reboot. :) Ben On Monday 05 December 2005 03:59, Jose Borquez wrote: I attempted to reboot my pc using FreeBSD 5.4 and it appears to begin the process of rebooting and then I get the following message. After

Can't reboot

2005-12-04 Thread Jose Borquez
I attempted to reboot my pc using FreeBSD 5.4 and it appears to begin the process of rebooting and then I get the following message. After this message it just hangs and I can't do anything to reboot it. Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...done Waiting (max 60

Re: inetd.conf becomes blank after reboot

2005-11-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, On some of the machine where I have FreeBSD 5.4, /etc/inetd.conf becomes a blank file soon after reboot. I have kept a copy of the file and when the service fails after reboot I restore the backup and restart the inetd service. What I need to check, to solve

Re: inetd.conf becomes blank after reboot

2005-11-26 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi Alex, I have set the flags for the file. I hope this helps. On 11/26/05, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, On some of the machine where I have FreeBSD 5.4, /etc/inetd.conf becomes a blank file soon after reboot. I have kept a copy of the file and when

Cleaning-up stale PID files on reboot

2005-11-25 Thread RW
I start mlnet, the daemon part of mldonkey, from it's local rc.d script on bootup. If mlnet isn't shutdown properly, it leaves behind a pid file that prevents the daemon running until I notice and manually delete the file. What's the best way to deal with this? I was wondering if there is

inetd.conf becomes blank after reboot

2005-11-25 Thread Jayesh Jayan
Hi, On some of the machine where I have FreeBSD 5.4, /etc/inetd.conf becomes a blank file soon after reboot. I have kept a copy of the file and when the service fails after reboot I restore the backup and restart the inetd service. What I need to check, to solve this issue. How can

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
reset. This morning I'm trying to reinstall all the software that got lost in last night's reset and I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Nov 6 10:58:14

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Micah wrote: Except it reboot later when rebuilding the KDE stuff with portinstall NOT the Gnome script. And I'm getting occasional segmentation faults on Thunderbird and intermittent compiler errors like this one while portinstalling kdepim: then mv -f .deps/eudora_xxport.Tpo .deps

Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Gorski, Jim
or is it covered in dust and cat hair like mine..? Best of luck - hope this helps, Jim Gorski Message: 14 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:59:37 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
around 11:30pm the computer reset. This morning I'm trying to reinstall all the software that got lost in last night's reset and I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the surge strip. I'm probably going to get a new PSU today. The parts store has a couple of 400 watters in the $50

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
smoothly or is it covered in dust and cat hair like mine..? Best of luck - hope this helps, Jim Gorski Message: 14 Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:59:37 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the surge strip. I'm probably going to get a new PSU today. The parts store

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon of mbmon from the/usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon port. That should help

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon of mbmon from the/usr/ports/sysutils/xmbmon

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:17:48AM -0800, Micah wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the surge strip. I'm probably going to get a new PSU

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Micah wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon of mbmon from the/usr/ports

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the surge strip. I'm probably going

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
At Mon, 7 Nov 2005 it looks like Micah composed: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Micah wrote: I'm really beginning to doubt it's the PSU. Why? I cannot get the output voltage to drop no matter what load I throw at it. I plugged in four additional hard drives and ran a system stress test and still the voltages remained rock steady at the values I stated earlier. I ran

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Lieske
At Mon, 7 Nov 2005 it looks like Micah composed: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Michael Lieske
Micah wrote: I'm really beginning to doubt it's the PSU. Why? I cannot get the output voltage to drop no matter what load I throw at it. I plugged in four additional hard drives and ran a system stress test and still the voltages remained rock steady at the values I stated earlier. I

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Micah
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Micah wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon

Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Micah
reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Nov 6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Nov 6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel I just ran

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Nov 6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Nov 6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Micah
in last night's reset and I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Nov 6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Nov 6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Beecher Rintoul
lost in last night's reset and I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Nov 6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Nov 6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Micah
the software that got lost in last night's reset and I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Nov 6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Nov 6 13:02

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-06 Thread Beecher Rintoul
the computer reset. This morning I'm trying to reinstall all the software that got lost in last night's reset and I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot is: Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Nov 6 10:58:14

Re: user account changes lost on reboot

2005-09-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jarrod Harch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jarrod Harch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I just setup a new 5.4 install, which went fairly well. I added some accounts - I used adduser to do one account, and logged on as the user OK. The other account was created when I installed gdm as the display

Re: user account changes lost on reboot

2005-09-27 Thread Jarrod Harch
Hi Lowell, yes the home directory is intact. I built and installed a new kernel, and after the reboot the accounts are now staying intact. So it's a mystery. Perhaps it was some unfinished sysinstall business, somehow overwriting the password database with the defaults? I'll reboot again tonight

user account changes lost on reboot

2005-09-25 Thread Jarrod Harch
Hi, I just setup a new 5.4 install, which went fairly well. I added some accounts - I used adduser to do one account, and logged on as the user OK. The other account was created when I installed gdm as the display manager. On rebooting the root password is missing, the user account I created is

Need help on reboot issue (hang during shutdown)

2005-09-20 Thread cs
Hi, I have a headless colo server and sometimes (after issuing the reboot command) it would hang and did not reboot. I have enabled console logging: normal reboot: Sep 19 13:24:26 foo kernel: Writing entropy file: Sep 19 13:26:30 foo kernel: Pre-seeding PRNG: Sep 19

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Ashley Moran
Norberto Meijome wrote: or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The handbook is a bit sketchy and only goes into the initial stages. I've tried flirting through

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 16. September 2005 11:05 CEST schrieb Ashley Moran: Norberto Meijome wrote: or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The man (8) boot (excellent

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ashley Moran wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The handbook is a bit sketchy and only goes into the initial stages. I've

Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Ashley Moran
: destination term { program(ccze -r /dev/ttyv7); }; I set syslog-ng to log all remote logs to this destination, and after re-starting syslog-ng to reload the config, it worked fine. However, for some reason way beyond me, it *will not work* after a reboot. I have to restart syslog-ng

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
it as a destination: destination term { program(ccze -r /dev/ttyv7); }; I set syslog-ng to log all remote logs to this destination, and after re-starting syslog-ng to reload the config, it worked fine. However, for some reason way beyond me, it *will not work* after a reboot. I have

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Ashley Moran
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: The requirements like BEFORE: SERVERS are not honoured by scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Try placing the script in /etc/rc.d calling it say syslogng (i.e. without the .sh). The BEFORE: doesn't bother me too much. I don't care enormously if I lose a bit of logging. I

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Ashley Moran wrote: Yes, syslog-ng is running fine (I'd already configured rc.conf like you say). The problem is that it has a destination set up to pipe to the program ccze, and that pipe doesn't work unless I restart syslog-ng after boot time. I've also tried moving the script into

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Norberto Meijome wrote: Perhaps the ttyv7 isn't properly created until after all the local rc scripts are run? That's all I can think. you may want to edit the syslogng.sh to add some debug lines to see if ttyv7 is up @ that point in time. based on the result of this, you may want to

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Perhaps the ttyv7 isn't properly created until after all the local rc scripts are run? That's all I can think. you may want to edit the syslogng.sh to add some debug lines to see if ttyv7 is up @ that point in time. based on the result of this,

Re: printer causing computer to reboot

2005-09-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Peter Matulis thusly... Hi, I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I have upgraded my ports and recompiled the system and kernel. I have a USB laser printer (Lexmark E310) that is recognized automatically when attached. (That allows use of parallel port too.)

printer causing computer to reboot

2005-09-11 Thread Peter Matulis
Hi, I am running FreeBSD 5.4. I have upgraded my ports and recompiled the system and kernel. I have a USB laser printer (Lexmark E310) that is recognized automatically when attached. At first I was pleased since it appeared to work out of the box after setting up a rudimentary printcap file.

Spontaneous reboot

2005-08-26 Thread Maarten Sanders
Hi, I just experienced a spontaneous reboot. I was fiddling a bit with ossctl (that comes with opensound, commercial license), had finished this (start sound with soundon) and started skype as a normal user. Skype stalled and the next thing I saw was a black screen and a reboot... Below some

Re: Shutdown -r now will not reboot pc

2005-07-28 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Ivan Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/27/2005 02:16 PM To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject Shutdown -r now will not reboot pc Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 When I try to reboot the pc with shutdown -r now the system gets as far as rebooting and hangs

Shutdown -r now will not reboot pc

2005-07-27 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 When I try to reboot the pc with shutdown -r now the system gets as far as rebooting and hangs there. Is there maybe a setup in the bios to allow the pc to reboot. Thanks, Ivan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: Auto Reboot on Panic?

2005-07-19 Thread Norbert Koch
I would like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think I have set the box up to do this, but on the last panic it didn't reboot. I followed the information at http://www.bsdatwork.com/2002/03/29/system_panics_part_1/, and I have compiled a kernel with makeoptions DEBUG=-g

Re: Auto Reboot after Panic?

2005-07-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think I have set the box up to do this, but on the last panic it didn't reboot. I followed the information at http://www.bsdatwork.com/2002/03/29/system_panics_part_1/, and I have compiled a kernel with makeoptions DEBUG=-g, options KDB

Auto Reboot on Panic?

2005-07-18 Thread Warren Toomey
Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Poweredge 650 server, and it has panicked twice in the past 3 weeks. Unfortunately, the box is in a server room for which I don't have a key, and access can take hours. I would like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think I have set

Auto Reboot after Panic?

2005-07-18 Thread Warren Toomey
Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Poweredge 650 server, and it has panicked twice in the past 3 weeks. Unfortunately, the box is in a server room for which I don't have a key, and access can take hours. I would like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think I have set

Auto Reboot on Panic?

2005-07-18 Thread Warren Toomey
Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Poweredge 650 server, and it has panicked twice in the past 3 weeks. Unfortunately, the box is in a server room for which I don't have a key, and access can take hours. I would like the box to dump core and reboot on a panic. I think I have set

Re: GEOM_STRIPE Problems on Reboot

2005-07-13 Thread Drew Tomlinson
. :) Thanks, Drew On 7/12/2005 9:35 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 7/11/2005 11:00 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I just installed 5.4-RELEASE. I created a gstripe volume per the example in the man page. Googling revealed that I needed to load the geom_stripe module upon reboot so the volume can

Re: GEOM_STRIPE Problems on Reboot

2005-07-12 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 7/11/2005 11:00 AM Drew Tomlinson wrote: I just installed 5.4-RELEASE. I created a gstripe volume per the example in the man page. Googling revealed that I needed to load the geom_stripe module upon reboot so the volume can be created. I added the following line to /boot/loader.conf

GEOM_STRIPE Problems on Reboot

2005-07-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I just installed 5.4-RELEASE. I created a gstripe volume per the example in the man page. Googling revealed that I needed to load the geom_stripe module upon reboot so the volume can be created. I added the following line to /boot/loader.conf: geom_stripe_load=yes Now upon reboot, I get

Diagnosing periodic reboot?

2005-06-30 Thread David Kurtz
My hobby FreeBSD box has started to reboot at semi-regular intervals, and I can't figure out why. There seems to be no warning, no message at the console and no indication of (or, probably, I don't recognize) the problem at reboot. This happened a few months ago, and for some reason I

Re: Diagnosing periodic reboot?

2005-06-30 Thread Al Johnson
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:04:15AM -0700, David Kurtz wrote: My hobby FreeBSD box has started to reboot at semi-regular intervals, and I can't figure out why. Check the battery in your uninterruptable power supply. What happens when you unplug it from the wall? -- If the ends don't justify

Re: Diagnosing periodic reboot?

2005-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/30/05, Al Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:04:15AM -0700, David Kurtz wrote: My hobby FreeBSD box has started to reboot at semi-regular intervals, and I can't figure out why. Check the battery in your uninterruptable power supply. What happens when you

Re: Diagnosing periodic reboot?

2005-06-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/30/05, David Kurtz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My hobby FreeBSD box has started to reboot at semi-regular intervals, and I can't figure out why. There seems to be no warning, no message at the console and no indication of (or, probably, I don't recognize) the problem at reboot

Re: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?

2005-06-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, forgot something quick - I'm reading the MAN pages now on camcontrol and the warnings associated with it. If this server is in production later and has active users is there reason to think that a rescan would cause problems with and read/writes happening at

new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?

2005-06-10 Thread D. Goss
should be able to be found without a reboot. I didn't try dropping into single-user mode, maybe that would have done it too. My hope was to probe for the SCSI drive and find it while the system was fully up. Thanks in advance - d. ___ freebsd

Re: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?

2005-06-10 Thread Dan Nelson
the corresponding alerts out. Still I couldn't see drive so I rebooted system and then it was available via sysinstall. What am I missing please? I would think with a hot-swap system the drive should be able to be found without a reboot. I didn't try dropping into single-user mode, maybe

Re: new hotswap drive not seen in SCSI scan without reboot?

2005-06-10 Thread D. Goss
On Jun 10, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: Try camcontrol rescan all to tell the kernel to rescan all the scsi busses. Otherwise there's no way for it to know you added a device. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you Dan, exacty what I needed. I was unaware of camcontrol

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