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List:       ipfilter
Subject:    Re: 4.1.9, S10, mystery reboot
From:       "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick () colby ! edu>
Date:       2005-08-18 1:46:52
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.63.0508172145370.5592 () emerald
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nothing other than the usual stuff you see after the start of
a reboot.  Nothing unusual before that.  I stared at it, looking
for a panic or hardware error, eg ECC problem.  Nada.

Jeff

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Darren Reed wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:59:53 +1000 (EST)
> From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
> To: Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>
> Cc: ipfilter@coombs.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: 4.1.9, S10, mystery reboot
> 
>> Gang,
>>
>> I'll throw this out FWIW.  I upgraded my Solaris 10 box,
>> a V210, from 4.1.8 to 4.1.9 yesterday.  It had been rock
>> solid with 4.1.8.  I upgraded by building 419 with Sun
>> cc Forte 9 compiler, stopping ipfilter via /etc/init.d/ipfboot,
>> doing a pkgrm of ipfx and ipf, installing the new version
>> via "make package", then restarting via ipfboot.
>>
>> This morning I found that the machine had rebooted itself
>> in the middle of the night, with no crash dump.  Savecore
>> is enabled.  One of my Volume manager metadevices needed
>> maintenance.  Hmmmmm.  I'm doing a "metareplace -e" to fix
>> the metadevice.  I'll keep an eye on it to see if it falls
>> over again.  If so, I may roll back to 4.1.8.
>
> What about output in dmesg or /var/adm/messages ?
>
> Darren
>
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