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

[justinw.5607521 at bloglines.com]

Right, which would be the hardware problem mentioned earlier.  But if it was
triggered by the contents of a cron job, which I was responding to, the /var/log/cron
entry is written before the job runs.  Sorry, I should've been more specific.


--- Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List <yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
wrote:

> 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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