On 12/14/08, Robert Richards <richard.rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All: > > I am running: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #3: Sun Oct 5 15:31:05 EDT 2008 > On a Sager 8800 Laptop. I have had FreeBSD installed for about a year, > and all is working perfectly. I can bring up KDE, run many apps, all > without a problem, except for ONE recent development. Every so often > FreeBSD initiates a clean shutdown on it's own. Xwindows goes down > cleanly, kernel modules are unloaded, processes are stopped, drives > are cleanly dismounted, and the system is powered down. It's exactly > what you would expect if you issued a shutdown -h now command. No > core files are generated, and messages, even when the OS is brought up > with verbose logging shows nothing. > > After trying many things, including running with a previous kernel, a > GENERIC kernel, running in single-user mode, running minimalist, > etc.... I decided to buildworld and buildkernel and essentially > reinstall everything. > > While updating sources via cvsup, there was a shutdown. A subsequent > attempt completed successfully. I then cleared out /usr/obj and did a > make buildworld. After 39 minutes a shutdown. Repeated this, and a > shutdown happened after 7 minutes. I repeated this in single user > mode, with older kernels, with GENERIC kernel, same results, the > system shuts down cleanly at some point. Never at the same point or > doing the same task (Yes I used script as well; script simply exits > as if make said all done! ). It's as if a ghost-root issued a > shutdown -h command. > > One additional clue. If I bring the system up "without acpi" the > shutdown is instant, and unclean. No scripts are run, drives are left > dirty, but still no clue in the logs. > > I am now stumped! What could cause the system to shut down in this > fashion? With acpi active, the init scripts are executed in shutdown > mode. What could cause the kernel to believe it has received a command > to shutdown like this? > > I am not new to this stuff, but I have never seen anything like this. > I AM new to FreeBSD, I had been running Linux for years until > recently, and absolutely love the order, consistency, layout, and > clean architecture of this OS. But this is weird! > > Where to look? What to try? I am truly stumped here.
Maybe it is "overheat" problem, look at temperature sensors. But something should be displayed in "dmesg" and "last" output. Read /var/log/dmesg.old -- Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
