Subject: Re: mysterious reboot
To: segv <segv@netctl.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/2005 09:19:23
In message <20050908123731.5c911f43.segv@netctl.net>, segv writes:
>On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:30:23 -0400
>"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>> Last night, probably during the daily job, my laptop appears to have
>> rebooted. There's no core dump and nothing in dmesg. I'm running
>> -current from about 4 or 5 days ago. Has anyone seen anything like
>> this?
>>
>> --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
>
>Yeah, I've seen it happen occasionally (i.e. more than just once) on my AMD
>Athlon PC. The reboots were quite random, so I assumed it was buggy hardware,
>because it didn't happen to any other machines that were running NetBSD. This
>was NetBSD-3.0_BETA
>
A disturbing thought, since I recently added more RAM to the machine.
Memtest found no problems in a single pass; maybe I'll run it longer
overnight.
Thanks.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb