Spontaneous reboots on Intel i5 and FreeBSD 9.0

[Marin Atanasov Nikolov]

Hi Thomas,

Yes, I'm still running on 9.0-RELEASE.

The strange thing here is that  it was running fine for a couple of months
without evening having a single reboot and a few weeks ago it all started.

I am also planning to update to 9.1, probably I will do it in the next
days. Hopefully the update will fix this.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
Marin


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Thomas Mueller
<mueller6724 at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> > Hello,
>
> > Usually I ask questions on the mailing lists when things are bad and
> can't
> > find much info about the problem myself. This is one of these cases now
> :)
>
> > Recently (started something like a week or two ago) my system which was
> > running months without any issues spontaneously rebooted. Nothing in the
> > logs about the reboot.
>
> > Then a few days ago it rebooted by itself a few more times, sometimes a
> 3-4
> > times a day without a clear reason in the logs of why this happened.
>
> > I'm monitoring the CPU temp, load, network traffic and other metrics in
> the
> > monitoring system, but there's nothing strange there - no load, no high
> > temp, no high traffic or anything that could explain why this is
> happening.
>
> > The machine is connected to a UPS, so I thought this could be causing
> this,
> > but I've tested the UPS and battery and they are all fine.
>
> > Here's what last(1) says about today's reboot:
>
> > ---
> >      boot time                                  Fri Jan 18 00:29
> > ---
>
> > It's like the system has been rebooted normally, but that isn't the case.
> > Sometimes it's logged as "crash". I've enabled crash dumps, but still
> > nothing in /var/crash after the failure.
>
> > The only error I'm able to find in /var/log/messages during boot-time is
> > this:
>
> > ---
> > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: acpi0: <_ASUS_ Notebook> on motherboard
> > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Error: [RAMB] Namespace lookup
> > failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20110527/psargs-392)
> > Jan 18 11:03:19 tsunami kernel: ACPI Exception: AE_NOT_FOUND, Could not
> > execute arguments for [RAMW] (Region) (20110527/nsinit-380)
> > ---
>
> > Not sure if this is the root cause for this, cause I've seen this error
> > before and at that time there were no reboots happening (months ago).
> Also
> > I find it strange that it says Notebook above, as this is a desktop
> > machine...
>
> > And currently I'm out of ideas. Could you guys give any advice or hints
> > what else I could check and sort this out?
>
> > Thanks and regards,
> > Marin
>
> > --
> > Marin Atanasov Nikolov
>
> I had something like that with FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE amd64 on a Sandy Bridge
> system, Intel i7.
>
> It started within two days after building and installing FreeBSD
> 9.0-RELEASE.
>
> My remedy, without consulting the emailing lists, was to switch to the
> STABLE branch.
>
> New computer hardware, needing the updates before the next release, was
> part of the reason for switching to STABLE.
>
> Now is post-9.1-RELEASE.  Are you still on 9.0-RELEASE?
>
> Tom
>



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