Mail server reboot while upgrading ports
Dragoncrest
dragoncrest at voyager.net
Tue Sep 9 08:45:35 PDT 2003
Was just going about doing an upgrade to my primary mail server yesterday
and right in the middle of it doing its thing I hear a beep, it stops, then
reboots. No warnings, no errors, nothing. Just reboots. Tracking it back
I was somewhere in the middle of upgrading /usr/ports/dns/p5-net-dns when
it burped. It's done that to me before with python upgrades on a different
box. I couldn't see what was actually happening at the console as I was
across the room ssh'ed in when it did this. Logs don't show anything sadly
enough and for some reason I can't get the box to log portupgrade or make
so I can see when errors like this might happen. Anyone got any ideas what
might be happening? I did get the port upgraded, but not before having to
go in and clean up the mess that this reboot left. I can't say this was
necessarily caused by the dns port I was upgrading cause it's done it in
the past a couple of times with other ports nearly the same way. Yet after
it reboots if I go in and install the port manually (usually have to as the
port gets trashed because of whatever it is that reboots the machine) to
fix it, then everything plays nice. I have no idea what's up. Anyone have
any thoughts on this?
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