Mail server reboot while upgrading ports

[Dragoncrest]

At 01:17 AM 9/10/03 +0200, Raphaël Marmier wrote:
>heat? Both could be overheating the same way if it is the same hardware in 
>the same room under identical conditions. Try to move one to the fridge 
>and see if it stop freezing ;)

         Actually, it's rebooting randomly during installs or upgrades 
only.  It did it once due to spam assassign, but that was a long time 
back.  I did however encounter something of interest that might give us 
some insight into this.  Even though I'd periodically have failed builds or 
installs, or even reboots at random during this, I always seemed to get a 
lot of this one ruby error.  Here's two examples.

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkginfo.rb:45: [BUG] rb_gc_mark(): 
unknown data type 0x7(0x8053e04) corrupted object
ruby 1.6.8 (2003-03-26) [i386-freebsd4]

/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:336: [BUG] rb_gc_mark(): unknown 
data type 0x7(0x82024dc) corrupted object
ruby 1.6.8 (2003-03-26) [i386-freebsd4]

         I've since done a pkgdb -F to see if that would help and it did 
find one small error in the database.  So not sure if that fixed it or 
not.  I am however fully completed with all the upgrades after 5 painful 
hours, so that's at least good.  That means I shouldn't have to touch this 
for a while longer at which this problem may crop up its ugly head.  I'll 
keep an eye on it and report anything new I find.  I don't expect this to 
be easy to solve.  But we'll keep looking for clues.

         Speaking of clues, is there a way to log everything that goes on 
in a TTY session?  I've noticed that when this thing crashes it prints 
something to the screen (I can't see it cause I'm away at another desk when 
it does it) about the crash and a reboot in 15 seconds but I'm never fast 
enough over there to catch it.  I want to try and catch that in a file if 
possible so I better know what's wrong with this thing.  I'm sure it has 
something to do with adding a switch to the logging system, but I can't 
find where to add the switch and which one would do it.  Any input would be 
welcome.  Thanks.