Re: 4.1.9, S10, mystery reboot

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
>