On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Doug Lee <d...@dlee.org> wrote: > One of the weirder things I've seen in a while here... > > OS: FreeBSD 4.11 (yeah I know, old, but generally stable) > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz > real memory = 536608768 (524032K bytes) > Hds: IDE >
Do you by chance have the kernel built with debugging enabled? > Problem: Ever since a suspitious power outage (I say suspitious > because we think a surge was also involved), this box has been > exhibiting kernel panics about every 23 hours 55 minutes, give or > take about 4 minutes either way. Obviously hardware is suspect, > and hopefully in line for upgrade; but as FreeBSD has always proven > so stable for me, I'm curious what on earth could cause this sort > of regular panic? > > It's not time of day; if I reboot at 2:00 AM, 3:55 PM, or any other > time, it's 23:55 or so later I get a panic, whenever that may be. > I think this rules out cron jobs, external attacks, and load-based > issues. > Perhaps a bad CMOS battery causing the system time to become corrupted? (I know it's a long shot...) -- Glen Barber _______________________________________________ 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"