Diagnosing reboot under load

[Beecher Rintoul]

On Sunday 06 November 2005 12:20 pm, Micah wrote:
> My desktop system just started doing this last night.  I was upgrading
> Gnome using the handy shell script they provide.  It looks like sometime
> around 11:30pm the computer reset.  This morning I'm trying to reinstall
> all the software that got lost in last night's reset and I get another
> reset in the middle of compiling.  The last message in /var/log/messages
> before reboot is:
> Nov  6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001
> Nov  6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
> Nov  6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
>
> I just ran memtest86+ and there's no memory errors.  I'm guessing it's a
> hardware issue, but how do I diagnose it?
>
> Thanks,
> Micah

I had the exact same problem on a machine that I know doesn't have any 
hardware problems. I should have just aborted that "script" when it started 
removing anything dependent on the new gnome libs. If you got as far as the 
new gnome progs installed. Just rebuild  what you need. And use the "r" flag. 
I'd much rather have a lib not found error than rebuild the way that "script" 
does.  I'm sure this is going to bite quite a few people before it's over.
FWIW I have the new kde back up with no errors, and I'll just deal with any 
other problems as they occur.

Beech

-- 
DISCLAIMER:
No electrons were harmed during the making of this message.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech at gmail.com
/"\   ASCII Ribbon Campaign  | NorthWind Communications
\ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail  | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310
 X  - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501
/ \ 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------











-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20051106/0b4f5b02/attachment.bin