Solved! (was: Question about rebooting server)

[Laszlo Vagner]

Dragoncrest wrote:

>Ok, make world, make kernel and a nice friendly reboot and all seems to
>be playing nice again.  I can update existing ports, install new ones,
>and the machine seems to be playing nicely again.  So this seems to be
>our issue of which a nice simple kernel upgrade seemed to fix it.  :)
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>I'm now running kernel 4.8 so that should help a lot.
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>>	Hi all.  Got an older box running Fbsd v4.6 and for some silly reason
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>>got this strange habit of giving an error (didn't stay up long enough to 
>>write it down) that sounds like a kernel panic, except instead of the 
>>typical kernel panic message, it fills the screen with some message about 
>>an application error, hit any key or the server will reboot in 15 
>>seconds.  It only does this when compiling or after the box has been
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>up for 
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>>more than 24 hours.  It's not a mission critical machine, but it's got
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>>data on it I'd prefer not to loose.  I know I'm being kinda vague, but it 
>>happens at random and I usually see the error on the screen just
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>before the 
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>>box reboots.  So I don't have time to catch it.  I'm sure someone has had 
>>this before.  This is also the same box that had the ports installation 
>>issue.  Any insight into this would be welcome.  Also, if I see the error 
>>again, I'll try to write it down.
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dont forget mergemaster, i had some strange problems after doing what 
you did
but didnt do mergemaster. IIRC it had to do with PAM and logging in 
using ssh
among others.