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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