I have experienced this EXACT same thing after a power burn out
(hence the reason I invested $$$ in Tripplite products *grin*). My
linux box took a similar hit and it partially fried one of my RAM
sticks. I replaced the sticks and all was well.
(of course, I replaced EVERYTHING in the PC until I figured this
out!)
- -----Original Message-----
From:
plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
[
mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
Steven
M. Klass
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 7:41 AM
To: PLUG
Subject: Mystery resets = less coding time..
Hey all,
I've run up on a stumper and I can't to figure out how to debug this
one.
I've got a home built PIII 500, 256 Mb ECC, 30 Gb HD, basic
workstation.
It's running a very heavily modified slack system - complete with a
full
reiserfs - X 4.03 - and many other changes.
Anyway, about a week ago we had a power outage, and for the first
time in
months it was shutdown (actual power removed vs reboot) After power
was
restored the system came back up, and I logged into X. The KDE
Splash screen
stayed there forever (like 5 minutes) and then all was fine. I logged
out and
logged back in at which time everything acted normal again. I had
one
problem which seemed wierd and unrelated - I could no longer nfs
(encrypted
cipe) to my work. Two nights ago I (like many nights) stopped my
work and
went to bed - No save, just turned off my monitor and went to bed. I
woke up
the next morning to an xlogin screen. Huh?? What happened? So I
looked at
my logs - No hint of the reboot
Jun 26 21:53:33 ethel -- MARK --
Jun 26 22:13:33 ethel -- MARK --
Jun 26 22:33:33 ethel -- MARK --
Jun 26 22:53:33 ethel -- MARK --
Jun 26 23:13:32 ethel -- MARK --
Jun 26 23:33:32 ethel -- MARK --
Jun 26 23:53:32 ethel -- MARK --
Jun 27 00:13:00 ethel syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Jun 27 00:13:01 ethel kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Jun 27 00:13:01 ethel kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
Jun 27 00:13:02 ethel kernel: Loaded 14801 symbols from
/boot/System.map.
Jun 27 00:13:02 ethel kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.4.
So I looked at my .xsession-errors - Nothing
So I logged in and began working. All of the sudden <no warning>
reset.
Like someone pushed the reset button. Fortunately (or so I think) I
have
reiserfs, which seems to be coping (at least better than me) with
this
irritation. This happend 4 times last night.
So now how do I begin to troubleshoot this? I haven't touched my OS
in a
while (>week) and I use it daily. If this is a hardware problem how
do I
find it? It's not an obvious fault (like a dead harddrive). Then
look at
the time for the reboot? The time certainly seems suspicious - like
a cron
job. But I don't know of a "hard reset" ability with a computer..
Any
ideas are welcome.
Thanks
- --
Steven M. Klass
Physical Design Engineering Manager
Andigilog Inc.
7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100
Chandler, AZ 85226
Ph: 480-940-6200 ext. 18
Fax: 480-940-4255
sklass@andigilog.com
http://www.andigilog.com
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