Re: Machine rebooting randomly
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A couple of people here (including myself) are trying to set up a router (IP forwarder really) based on Debian. We have an old 486 (it's a Cyrix 486-40) with 4 MB of RAM for the router. According to what I have found on the web, this should do the work
.
>
> We have installed Debian using the lowmem procedure (kudos to the developers, very very cleaver!) and it works. I replaced the kernel with a custom version that has EVERYTHING stripped (I mean it... this thing has the necessary network functions, netcar
d, IDE, ELF and nothing else) and uses as little memory as possible. I started stripping other things too, for example, there aren't virtual terminals, the only way to get in is via telnet or rescue floppy. setserial is gone, and I was thinking of disabli
g the syslog daemon, too.
>
> The problem I have right now (and this showed up long before I started tweaking the computer) is that the machine reboots randomly. For example, I was using ae to edit /etc/init.d/network to add a second interface, and the machine rebooted. I was lookin
g for /etc/modules to remove the modules for the ethernet card and the machine rebooted. Sometimes the machine boots, stays there for a while minding its own bussiness and it suddenly reboots. Sometimes it sits there for a little longer. In fact, I used d
select to fetch some upgraded packages via ftp, and it completed successfully (even installed perl... which I didn't want, WTH!)
Are you running a software watchdog? This with some combinations
of kernel and/or libc seem to cause problems this way. This is
from personal experience and not confirmed.
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