Re: (2) Reboots with no message/info 2.5 i386

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@nmedia.net>]

You have failing hardware
Your harddisk is going bad as evident in the dmesg, this could be part of the
problem, or there may be a problem with the motherboard or the RAM perhaps ?

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, daemons wrote:

 | 
 | Hey,
 | 
 | Twice in about 30 minutes my machine rebooted without halt(8).  Both times
 | i was in XWindows using netscape (bsdos emu, bsdi binary) window maker and
 | a few xterms. (dmesg is attached)
 | 
 | first time it just rebooted without freezing, heard the modem drop carrier
 | and then was looking at my #9 video bios banner.  Second time froze dead,
 | hitl ctrl-alt-backspace, killed the x window and instantly rebooted.  your
 | guess is surely better than mine, whould a debug(able) kernel be able to
 | stop this madness or do I need to go some other route
 | 
 | any pointers on how to at least invesitgate this would be appreciated..
 | btw before today i ran this machine for about a week solid in X and
 | netscape, etc with no funny rebooting....
 | 
 | tia
 | 
 | being dmesg > dmesg.txt
 | OpenBSD 2.5 (GENERIC) #243: Fri Apr 16 09:16:34 MDT 1999
 |     deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
 | cpu0: Cyrix 6x86 (486-class)
 | BIOS mem  = 654336 conventional, 66060288 extended
 | real mem  = 66715648
 | avail mem = 58728448
 | using 840 buffers containing 3440640 bytes of memory
 | mainbus0 (root)
 | bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(7c) BIOS, date 03/03/97
 | bios0: pciinfo 0xf049d00c apminfo 0xf049d028 diskinfo 0xf049d050 cksumlen 1 memmap 0xf049d0cc
 | apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.1
 | apm0: AC on, no battery
 | pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios)
 | pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82437VX System (TVX)" rev 0x02
 | pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82371SB (Triton II) PCI-ISA" rev 0x01
 | "Intel 82371SB (Triton II) IDE" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
 | "S3 Trio32/64" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured
 | isa0 at mainbus0
 | isadma0 at isa0
 | wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
 | atapibus0 at wdc0
 | wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: <FUJITSU MPB3043ATU E>
 | wd0: 4125MB, 8940 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 8448300 sec total
 | wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing (256KB cache)
 | pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
 | midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
 | sysbeep0 at pcppi0
 | lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
 | npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
 | pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
 | pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
 | vt0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: S3 764 (Trio64), 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd
 | pms0 at vt0 irq 12
 | fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2
 | fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
 | biomask 4040 netmask 4040 ttymask 50c2
 | root on wd0a
 | pctr: no performance counters in CPU
 | dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
 | rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
 | WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
 | wd0g: hard error reading fsbn 7286000 of 7228656-7228767 (wd0 bn 8359520; cn 8846 tn 0 sn 50)
 | WARNING: R/W mount of /home denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
 | WARNING: R/W mount of /home denied.  Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
 | wd0g: hard error reading fsbn 7286000 of 7228656-7228767 (wd0 bn 8359520; cn 8846 tn 0 sn 50)
 | wd0g: hard error reading fsbn 7228687 (wd0 bn 8302207; cn 8785 tn 6 sn 4)
 | 
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