FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE (April 5, 2006) randomly rebooting on Dell Poweredge 650

[Yvo van Doorn]

Usually, in my experience, this isn't hardware related at all (especially if
its not being logged) but rather a dying part (powersupply for example) in
your computer. 






> From: Matt Watson <mwatson at becon.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:51:16 -0400 (EDT)
> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Subject: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE (April 5, 2006) randomly rebooting on Dell
> Poweredge 650
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to be sending this or not but I
> figured I'd give it a shot.
> 
> The subject line pretty much says it all, I have a Dell Poweredge 650 box
> running 6.1-PRERELEASE which was cvsup'd on April 5, 2006.  The box has
> now twice rebooted on its own for no aparant reason.  Its a fresh install
> as well, and appears to have been doing this ever since it was installled.
> The first time the box was only up for approximently 2 days and rebooted,
> the 2nd time it was up for approximently 10 days.  I have all.log setup to
> log all syslog messages however when the reboot occured there is no
> information in the log which indicates anything going wrong...  Here is a
> small cut from the log at the time of the reboot.  As can be seen, one
> minute there is an imapd process, the next entry is the system restarting.
> 
> 
> Apr 16 20:55:34 clearwater imapd: LOGOUT, user=XXXXXX,
> ip=[::ffff:WWW.XXX.YYY.ZZZ], headers=0, body=0, time=0
> Apr 16 20:59:36 clearwater syslogd: restart
> Apr 16 20:59:36 clearwater syslogd: kernel boot file is
> /boot/kernel/kernel
> Apr 16 20:59:36 clearwater kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD
> Project.
> Apr 16 20:59:36 clearwater kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986,
> 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> Apr 16 20:59:36 clearwater kernel: The Regents of the University of
> California. All rights reserved.
> Apr 16 20:59:36 clearwater kernel: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Apr  5
> 20:46:37 EDT 2006
> 
> This machine previously had Linux installed on the box and did not display
> the same problems, so I'm going on the assumption that its not a hardware
> failure.
> 
> Aside from the reboots the box has been preforming extermely well.
> 
> If anybody can provide some insights or suggestions I'd greatly appreciate
> it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Watson
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