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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!news.intersurf.net!mozart.jlc.net!news.NH.Destek.Net!news.emi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!198.133.164.1!omega.metrics.com!tomh From: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) Subject: Re: BSDI 2.1 STOPING RANDOMLY Organization: Software Metrics Inc. Message-ID: <E3L3qu.D6o@metrics.com> References: <3233cbc4.17400812@news.ni.net> <E2H0pC.I5@metrics.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 11:25:42 GMT Lines: 31 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5514 tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) writes: > Our BSDI system has been wonderfully stable, but all of a sudden, about > a week and a half ago, it started rebooting randomly, easily 5-6 times > a day, with no panics, no messages in logs, no symptoms of any kind. > And *really* nothing had changed! > > We eventually tracked this down to a failing power supply -- it would just > cut out randomly, and all of a sudden the BIOS boot screen would appear. > Ouch! > > We couldn't get the right power supply quickly, so as a temporary workaround > we ran with an "external" supply -- a loose power supply sitting on a > cardboard box next to the open case, with all power cables connected to > the appropriate places. This fixed the random reboots, but now we were > getting the hanging symptoms similar to yours ... it would just stop > responding. This *might* have been due to lack of grounding and/or static > accumulation -- not sure. > > Finally we got the right power supply in on Friday morning, and the system > has now been stable for 48 hours without a glitch, so I'm hoping that we > have eliminated the issue. Just a quick note to say that we've been up solid for over three weeks now after replacing the power supply and closing the case -- so don't ignore your power supply as a potential source of flakiness! -- [ /tom haapanen -- tomh@metrics.com -- software metrics inc -- waterloo, ont ] [ "how's it going, mr. peterson?" ] [ "it's a dog eat dog world, and i'm wearing milkbone underwear." -- cheers ]