Fwd: reboot DURING a portupgrade

[Karol Kwiatkowski]

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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.

> Just fixed the stale dependencies, then did portupgrade -a
>
> same thing.
> unclean reboot.

Sounds like faulty hardware to me (or _really_ misconfigured kernel
and/or compilation options - yeah, I did that once :) )

First I would check memory with tools like memtest
/usr/ports/sysutils/memtest86

Second I would check if CPU is not overheating. You could use
/usr/ports/sysutils/cpuburn for that.

That's for a start. If it's not hardware problem post more details: do
you have custom kernel? If so, what options were changed? Was the
system stable before changes? What about /etc/make.conf? etc.


Regards,

Karol

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Karol Kwiatkowski  <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>