Re: spurious reboots

[AR <bsdlisten%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:

> Hello
>
> I have an amd64 box that worked fine with NetBSD 4. Since I upgraded it
> to NetBSD-5, it now exhibit spurious reboots, with the following
> characteristics:
> - building a few packages will reliabily cause the reboot within a few
> minutes
> - it never happens when the machine is idle
> - there is no panic, no console message at all. It just reboots.
> - ddb.onpanic is set to 1
> - I tried a kernel without ACPI, it does not change the behavior
>
> Any idea?
>
> --
> Emmanuel Dreyfus
> http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
> manu%netbsd.org@localhost
Maybe you could try swapping the RAM chips in their sockets or try a 
memtest. It is likely that your problem is hardware related. If not, try a 
live cd with say, Free/OpenBSD and compile stuff there, see if your 
problems persist.