On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Robert Bonomi <[email protected]> wrote: >> From [email protected] Tue Aug 24 12:29:16 2010 >> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:29:27 -0700 >> From: Chris Maness <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Spontaneous Reboots (I thought it was Virtualbox Kernel Modules) >> >> 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? > > I think its 100% certain that it is hardware, or software. <*GRIN*> > > You can try randomly replacing things, which can be expensive, time- > consuming, and not necessarily effective -- how do you *KNOW* that the > parts you're putting _IN_ do not, themselves, have (as-yet undiscovered) > problems? > > I'd try to make the box tell me "something" about *why* it crashed. > > crank up the level of logging for 'kernel' events in syslog.con, > enable crash dumps, and make sure the boot process saves the dump > Then you can get into the weird,wonderful, world of 'crash dump' > analysis. > > With a few dumps in hand, you can begin to see if there is any consistency > in what the machine was doing -when- it crashed. > > Happy hunting >
When I looked at the regular level kernel log, it seemed to be out of the clear blue. I am an experienced user, but I am not sure if I have the programing skills to look at debug output to find a fault. I might need a bit of hand holding on this one. I looked at backtrace to. I was thinking it was a command or something, but it looks like some debugging procedure. Regards, Chris Maness _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
