reboot DURING a portupgrade

[Tabor Kelly]

Ben Haysom wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am running FBSD 5.3-CURRENT on a Duron 700Mhz 384Mb RAM.
> 
> When I do (as root)
> 
> #portupgrade -a
> 
> it comes back with:
> 
> Stale dependency: acroread-5.10_1 --> linux_base-8-8.0_6 -- manually
> run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> 
> So I do
> 
> #portupgrade -a -O
> 
> and *everytime* it reboots itself before the portupgrade is complete.
> Not a clean reboot though - it doesn't dismount filesystems before it goes.
> 
> I can't work out what it's doing.
> There is nothing relevant in /var/log/messages.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Ben.

Like Karol Kwiatkowski suggested, I would say you have about a 99% 
chance this is a hardware failure. In addition to what Karol suggested, 
it could also be a faulty power supply. Also, I would say look into the 
hardware in this order:

1. RAM
2. Power Supply
3. CPU

Note: The above is just my personal opinion.

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Tabor Kelly
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