4.9 rebooting

[Shane Ambler]

I would agree with looking into hardware problems - I have a MSI-694 dual
proc machine that about two or three months ago started rebooting once or
twice a week for no apparent reason, then one hot day it became several
times a day and I shut it down before going away for xmas. Now it won't even
attempt to start with both cpu's - with one it will boot but at one of the
hardware probes (just after keyboard) it restarts, as if someone is hitting
the reset button.

If it is failing hardware you may find no indication of the fault - the
faulty hardware may cause the same effect as someone pressing the reset
button - your logs would show normal operation then dmesg would show system
boot with disks unmounted properly and starting (or delaying) fsck.


On 13/1/05 8:06 AM, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:

> If this was something like a kernel panic there would be a
> message in /var/log/messages
> 
> If nothing is in there then it's probably failing hardware.
> My experiences in those cases is that no matter what logging you
> turn on, nothing gets logged, the machine just reboots.
> 
> If it's a remote colocated server maybe the UPS it's on
> is shot, and it's getting power fluctuations.  Or maybe
> it's overheating or it's clogged with dust.
> 
> Ted
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Jim Pazarena
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:40 AM
>> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> Subject: 4.9 rebooting
>> 
>> 
>> I have a remote server which has begun re-booting every few days.
>> 
>> Are there any logs which I can examine that may provide a clue as to
>> the reason? Or any logging I can turn "on/up" ? I realize that
>> during a reboot, logs are seldom "up-to-date", but any clue would
>> be handy.
>> 
>> This is a remote co-located server which will take a fairly
>> expensive trip to get hands-on with. I'd like to have ammunition
>> at hand before I commit to the trip.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
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