Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboot...
To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/09/1998 11:23:31
Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> writes:
> I just woke up a little while ago, and noted that the machine had rebooted
> without any obvious reason. There's a bit of a firewall between it and the
> Net at large, so I don't think it was attacked in any way, and I don't
> believe the power went out, as other equipment in the room was functioning
> normally and hadn't rebooted.
>
> I see *nothing* in my logs that indicates why a reboot happened.
I'm getting crashes in m_copydata on my 1.3.2 machine, and I don't like
that either. Grr. I suspect the two problems are unrelated, but this
just started as well, and it too is damned annoying.
I do get dumps in /var/crash, but unfortunately my swap partition didn't
grow as my memory did, so I only get partial dumps, not enough to examine
the stack.
I'm blaming the IP filter, for lack of anything else. I log _everything_
it does, and will turn that off to see what happens on the next reboot.
--Michael