Server Reboot

[Dylan Smith]

Quick question, if you are running a non-X system why, or even more
importantly, how is Firefox-bin running in the first place?

Dylan

Grant Peel wrote:
> ----- 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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>   -- 
>   Gary Kline kline at thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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