Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules)
Mark Atkinson
atkin901 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 21:25:06 UTC 2010
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On 08/24/10 10:29, Chris Maness wrote:
> I have commented out the lines that load kernel modules for
> virtualbox, and made sure they were gone with kldstat. However I am
> still getting VERY infrequent spontaneous reboots. So it is not the
> modules. I am thinking hardware. It has a temperature alarm that
> sounds when it is hot, but since I have cleaned it out I have not had
> any issues with heat. I am thinking bad processor/ram. It is
> behaving the same way before/after the upgraded to the latest release.
> What do you guys think?
You can try the following ( I believe this is in 8-STABLE )
echo 'hw.mca.enabled="1"' >> /boot/loader.conf
and reboot. If it's hardware supported machine check exception, then
you may see which component has an issue on the console in the machine
check output.
- -Mark
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