On 24/08/2004, at 9:31 AM, Barclay Osborn wrote:
Same symptons - immediate reboot, no messages - even in the (minimal) BIOS logging. I'm pretty convinced that's it's a SW problem, since it was up and running for weeks with no issues, and I can have it sit in the BIOS health monitor (or in another OS) indefinitely.
Me too for much the same reasons. The computer shop guy turned off a whole lot of features in BIOS to try to eliminate it. Unfortunately I wasn't there so I don't have the details.
Our original motherboard was Gigabyte GA-8IK1100 (Intel 875 chipset).He also put the hard disk in another customer's box ("very standard") and it crashed the same way -- also 78 seconds, though I wasn't there. That motherboard was GA-8I865GMVK (Intel 865 chipset).
First I was leaning towards framebuffer modules, now I'm thinking perhaps GigE driver.
I thought it was something to do with LDAP (which is new to me), but I now think not. It goes like this:
1. install off the network installer disk 2. reboot, install minimal system off mirrors 3. configuration changes, 4. reboot to test changes, --> spontaneous reboots.Unfortunately step 2 is slow enough over ADSL that I didn't get to try all the permutations that I would have liked to. But I did it about three times.... anyway, I've now mirrored most of the Debian i386 archive onto my laptop hard drive :-0, and will be able to do very quick network reinstalls to figure out what's going on.
I'm also fairly certain that this is only something that shows up after the reboot in step four, which suggests something to do with the kernel or a very basic library. (?)
Is putting sarge on a P4 pushing water up hill?Thanks, and if it is appropriate to take this discussion "off list", please someone let me know.
DJP
But I'm definitely on the short path to insanity as well. I'd be interested to know if, after getting the machine back, a Debian install would manifest with the same results, and if not, what mods were made to the box. Thanks, -B On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 09:29:07AM +1000, David Philp wrote:On 24/08/2004, at 3:33 AM, Barclay Osborn wrote:I'm running sarge-testing on a Shuttle SB52G2 P4 2.4/1 gig RAM, last apt-get updated about two weeks ago (2.4.26). Short version of problem: the box spontaneously reboots after a couple minutes of uptime.snip I have a very similar problem, on a machine with similar specs. The machine reboots spontaneously 78 seconds from the grub prompt. The reboot is very instant: nothing in the logs or on the screen, just a beep. The machine has only minimal server software installed on it, no X, etc.. Obviously with symptoms like that, it has never been used as a server. I had given up, and the machine's gone back to the shop (for a different reason) and was about to begin a new life as a windows desktop. But if anyone wants me to get it back, get the exact specs, and run tests, etc., I'm quite willing. I thought I was going crazy. DJP p.s. I still believe that my machine has a configuration error, myfault, to do with LDAP. But the symptoms are so similar that I thoughtit worth putting out there.