Re: Unexplained rebooting

2002-12-13 Thread Rich Puhek
Donovan Baarda wrote: very OT, but I need to complain somewhere... I have problems _caused_ by a UPS here. Every night, the power here creeps just above 255V (should be 240V here in Aus). This is enough to make my UPS complain and kick in. I have genpowerd setup to wait 5 mins, then do a con

Re: Unexplained rebooting

2002-12-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:45:45AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: [...] > unless your machine is on a good UPS, the most likely culprit is > power. i.e. temporary power loss or low voltage fluctuation. > > a UPS is good for more than just backup power and shutting down cleanly, > it's great for regu

Re: Unexplained rebooting

2002-12-12 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:59:15PM -0800, Greg Hunt wrote: > Hi, > If you are notified right after it reboots try checking the > temperature of the CPU and seeing if its either close to warn or shut > down temp in your BIOS. If that's not it and you have extra RAM lying > around you could try swa

Re: Unexplained rebooting

2002-12-12 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:40:47PM -0800, Wade Richards wrote: > I leave my debian machine running 24x7, and in the past few months I've > had 4 unexplained reboots. The various log files (kern.log, messags, > syslog, etc) all show nothing interesting (usually nothing at all) > happening, and then

Re: Unexplained rebooting

2002-12-12 Thread Greg Hunt
Hi, If you are notified right after it reboots try checking the temperature of the CPU and seeing if its either close to warn or shut down temp in your BIOS. If that's not it and you have extra RAM lying around you could try swapping the RAM out and seeing if it makes a difference. -Greg On Thu,

Unexplained rebooting

2002-12-12 Thread Wade Richards
Hi, I realize that this isn't a debian-specific or an ISP-specific issue, but I figured that this list is where I'd find the people with the skills needed to help solve this problem. I leave my debian machine running 24x7, and in the past few months I've had 4 unexplained reboots. The various lo