Server Reboot

[Grant Peel]

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Kline 
  To: Garrett Cooper 
  Cc: Grant Peel ; FreeBSD Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:15 PM
  Subject: Re: Server Reboot


  On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:19:12AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
  > Grant Peel wrote:
  > >Hi all,
  > >
  > >This is the first time in 10 years I have seen this.
  > >
  > >I have a Dell PE750 (vintage 2004), running FreeBSD 6.2 that had been 
  > >up and running for about 30 days without any issues.
  > >
  > >The server somehow rebooted last night, apparently, all by itself.
  > >
  > >The last log file line I can find waqs about 12:30 AM. The dmesg shows 
  > >it restarted about 1:12 AM. dmesg shows some file errors that were 
  > >fixed upon reboot, other that that, everything is back up and running 
  > >normally.
  > >
  > >I was wondering if anyone has seen anything similar and if a cause was 
  > >found.
  > >
  > >Here is what I know:
  > >
  > >-all servers (there are 5 more) are plugged into the same power bar 
  > >and none of the others were affected
  > >-none of the standard logs show any intrusion or root log in attempt,
  > >-dmesg and console log show nothing of note,
  > >-the DRAC logs and ESM logs show nothing,
  > >-the sensors (temp,voltage,etc) logs currently show no issues, all 
  > >well withing normal parms.
  > >-my MRTG logs show no abnormal CPU usage or network activity.
  > >
  > >
  > >Any help would be appreciated,
  > >
  > >-Grant
  > 
  > Check the capacitors on the motherboard (in particular near the 
  > memory and processor); they may be going bad (esp with that vintage. 
  > 2004 Dell was a bad year =P..).
  > You'll be looking for swelled capacitors and possibly some orange 
  > dialectric being emitted.
  > -Garrett

  Strange. In just the past few, 2 or 3 or even 4 weeks my 
  Dell-8200 has spontaneouslyrebooted too. I do have a number of
  things in /var/log/messages, but nothing that I can seee that
  would cause this problem. Before the video-card started flaking
  out, this puppy ran for weeks/months happily. AFAIW, X (or a
  heavily-loaded system) shouldn't have aynything to do with this 
  problem, [yes/no??]. Any clues, Garrett? 

  Ah, wait: dmesg.yesterday says 



  rl0: link state changed to UP
  pid 729 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
  pid 4475 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
  pid 60174 (firefox-bin), uid 1000: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
  pid 47564 (as), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
  pid 47570 (as), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
  pid 79051 (as), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
  pid 79057 (as), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
  pid 3625 (as), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
  pid 3631 (as), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
  pid 74013 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 12 (core dumped)


  This file is timestamped 03 Oct 07 at 03:17

  Anybody know why firefox would core dump? I have no clue waht
  "conftest" is... .

  Grant, how oten has your system failed?


  gary

  Gary,
  I have owned this server since new (in 2004), and this is the first time it has done this. I also have another PE750 that was bought and deployed the same time as this one and it has never done this.

  I am not running anything graphical on this, so I am guessing its not the built in video card. It is running as a server only. Apache 2, Mysql, 4PHP4, Perl5, Exim4, vm-pop3d, ipa, Openwebmail, and a number of add in modules for all the above.

  One thing I may have neglected in my original post, is that it appears the system may have been locked for a while since the last log entry I can find befor the reboot was at about 12:20 am, the system then shows the reboot at about 1:20 AM.

  -Grant






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