On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:44:57AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I just joined this thread today, but had a similar issue with an IBM > 305 machine. > > On 4.5, it would randomly just shut down. No reason. Nothing in any > logs, it was as if the power was pulled. > > I have 2 identical IBM 305 machines and it was happening on both, so > that technically ruled out any specific hardware failure. > What I did notice (in the BIOS events) was that the IBM reported fan > #1,2,3 loss. Something seemed to disrupt the fan speed to bios > reporting and I suspect the machine powered down since it thought it > was overheating? - I could go a day or 2 weeks. Very random. > > 4.6 hasn't done this (yet) and uptime has been over a month. > However, eventhough both IBMs are the same in every way, 4.6-REL > will boot on machine #2 but I have no networking. If I use a 4.6-CUR > snapshot, it comes up fine. That makes NO sense, yet another user > reported the same exact thing. > > -- > J.D. Bronson >
Please try -current as of today (Jan 13, 2010 Melbourne time), there were number of significant fixes committed in the last couple of days. .... Ken
