7.1 System Crashing

[APseudoUtopia]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:
> APseudoUtopia wrote:
>>
>> My FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 system has gone down a few times in the last
>> two days. I'm trying to figure out why, but there is nothing in
>> /var/log/messages or dmesg about the incident.
>>
>> Here's the output from the `last` command:
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 19:02   still logged in
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 18:52 - 19:02  (00:09)
>> reboot           ~                         Tue Apr 14 18:52
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 18:42 - crash  (00:09)
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 16:06 - 18:42  (02:36)
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Tue Apr 14 11:23 - 12:53  (01:29)
>> reboot           ~                         Tue Apr 14 07:44
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Mon Apr 13 20:01 - 22:58  (02:57)
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Mon Apr 13 19:56 - 20:01  (00:04)
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Mon Apr 13 19:31 - 19:56  (00:25)
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sun Apr 12 15:02 - 16:15  (01:12)
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sun Apr 12 14:48 - 15:02  (00:14)
>> reboot           ~                         Sun Apr 12 14:48
>> shutdown         ~                         Sun Apr 12 14:45
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sun Apr 12 14:24 - shutdown  (00:21)
>> User      ttyp0    1.2.3.4    Sat Apr 11 13:03 - 17:00  (03:56)
>> wtmp begins Wed Apr  1 21:21:28 UTC 2009
>>
>>
>>
>> As you can see, the system reboot several times, and crashed the most
>> recent time. Only one of the shutdown/reboots listed is valid - the
>> furthest one.
>> I have no idea why it is rebooting/crashing. It has been completely
>> stable until about 1-2 days ago. If anyone can direct me to post the
>> output to any commands or any log messages, I'd be more than willing
>> to do so in order to help anyone diagnose my problem.
>>
>> Thank you for your time.
>>
>>
>
> What you are experiencing are the early warning signs of disk drive failure
> or over heating problems.
>
> Before doing any thing else make backup of your user data if you have not
> done so already.
>
> Then open your box and use a small brush and a can of compressed air to blow
> the dust off the motherboard and the fans. Give special attention to the fan
> in the power supply. If PC is older than 3 years or has over 1 year of
> continues use then replace the power supply.
>
> IF problem still happens replace hard drive.
>
>
>

The system is in a colocation center which I don't have access to. The
HDD crashed several months ago and was replaced by a brand new drive
(or so I was told....). So I'm leaning towards a heat or PSU problem.
I installed Healthd on the system to monitor such things, however it
didn't detect the hardware properly. Apparently the voltage in my CPU
core was 0.00, as was the temperature. Is there any other way to
monitor these things?

Everyone: Thanks for all the help. I'll open up a ticket with my host
to get them to look at it.