What the?!?!?!? Reboot out of nowhere!

[sloopy]

this is not always true, not to mention if there is a bus error/memory
corruption it could write in never-never land...

sloopy.


On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 10:00, justinw.5607521 at bloglines.com wrote:
> The problem with that is there would be either a kernel panic logged in /var/log/messages,
> or at least mention of the cron job shortly before the reboot in /var/log/cron
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > another possibility is the kernel panic'ed because of something
> ( a cron
> > job, etc...) and when this happens the kernel reboots in 180 seconds.
> 
> > this may have been caused by a variation in things inside ( p/s is
> > common
> ) 
> > 
> > 
> > sloopy.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:31, Dakidd wrote:
> 
> > > >> So I'm sitting here in front of my PM 7500 running MacOS 9.1, using
> it as
> > > >a
> > > >> TV set to watch "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", when
> my PM 7600 running
> > > >
> > > >> YDL 3.0, which is sitting just to the right
> of the 7500, idle, nobody
> > > >> logged on, with the monitor powered down,
> goes "BONG!" for no detectable
> > > >
> > > >> reason.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Most
> likely dirty power.  Possible that your motherboard or
> > > >power supply
> are going out, but most likely there was some dirty power on
> > > >the wire
> and your power supply either protected you from a slight surge, or
> > > >took
> a break with not enough juice to work with.  And yeah, some power
> > > >supplies
> 
> > > >can be more sensitive than others, which could explain why your other
> system
> > > >was fine.
> > > 
> > > I'd find this idea a lot easier to accept
> if, as has always been the case
> > > in the past during "power troubles" (*RELATIVELY*
> common, as far out in the
> > > boonies as I am), the 7500 and the lights "twitched".
> The 7500 has always
> > > (for me at least) been the "touchier" machine when
> it comes to power issues
> > > - If there's trouble on the power line, it has
> always been the machine that
> > > glitches first, alerting me to trouble,
> and giving me warning that I
> > > probably want to yank plugs out of the wall
> quick if I want to keep the
> > > other hardware from getting hit by something
> ugly. Not this time. The 7600
> > > has always been the "tank" of my collection
> - NOTHING phases it. But it was
> > > the only hardware in the house that so
> much as flickered. Even the lights
> > > (which frequently start showing visible
> flickering with just a 10 volt
> > > "wiggle" on the line) remained dead-steady,
> and the fridge, which literally
> > > shrieks when we get a power-glitch, ran
> on rock-steady.
> > > 
> > > Guess I'll have to chalk this one up to "Who knows
> what happened?"
> > > 
> > > Don Bruder -  dakidd at sonic.net      <--- Preferred
> Email - unmunged
> > > I will choose a path that's clear: I will choose Free
> Will! - N. Peart
> > > 
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