7.1 System Crashing

[Graeme Dargie]

-----Original Message-----
From: APseudoUtopia [mailto:apseudoutopia at gmail.com] 
Sent: 14 April 2009 20:23
To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: 7.1 System Crashing

My FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 system has gone down a few times in the last
two days. I'm trying to figure out why, but there is nothing in
/var/log/messages or dmesg about the incident.

Here's the output from the `last` command:
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 19:02   still logged in
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 18:52 - 19:02  (00:09)
reboot           ~                         Tue Apr 14 18:52
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 18:42 - crash  (00:09)
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 16:06 - 18:42  (02:36)
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 11:23 - 12:53  (01:29)
reboot           ~                         Tue Apr 14 07:44
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Mon Apr 13 20:01 - 22:58  (02:57)
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Mon Apr 13 19:56 - 20:01  (00:04)
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Mon Apr 13 19:31 - 19:56  (00:25)
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sun Apr 12 15:02 - 16:15  (01:12)
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sun Apr 12 14:48 - 15:02  (00:14)
reboot           ~                         Sun Apr 12 14:48
shutdown         ~                         Sun Apr 12 14:45
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sun Apr 12 14:24 - shutdown  (00:21)
User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sat Apr 11 13:03 - 17:00  (03:56)
wtmp begins Wed Apr  1 21:21:28 UTC 2009



As you can see, the system reboot several times, and crashed the most
recent time. Only one of the shutdown/reboots listed is valid - the
furthest one.
I have no idea why it is rebooting/crashing. It has been completely
stable until about 1-2 days ago. If anyone can direct me to post the
output to any commands or any log messages, I'd be more than willing
to do so in order to help anyone diagnose my problem.

Thank you for your time.
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If you are able to I would check the cpu heat sink and fan are clean and
in good working order, or if the machine is remote to you install
something like healthd and have a look at the temperatures.


Regards

Graeme