[Leaplist] Strange symptoms...

[William Warren]

nothing in the logs?

Austin (Ozz) Denyer wrote:
> Hi Guys.
> 
> I have a machine here with the strangest symptoms I've ever
> encountered.  Read to the end to fully understand my confusion.
> 
> The machine is an IBM NetVista, 800MHz Pentium III, 256Mb RAM.
> 
> It is running TrixBox 1.2.3 (CentOS, uname reports the kernel as
> 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL).
> 
> The machine keeps randomly rebooting.  Sometimes it will stay up for up
> to 8 hours, but can reboot within minutes, even with no load.  Average
> uptime is around 90 mins.
> 
> I booted it on Knoppix and the machine was fine (up for several days
> before I ended the test).
> 
> I booted it back up on TrixBox and it was back to it's rebooting tricks
> again.
> 
> Yesterday, after it rebooted itself for the 8th time that day, I placed
> a Knoppix CD in the drive so that the next time it rebooted it would
> boot back on Knoppix.
> 
> But, get this, since I placed the Knoppix CD in the drive, the machine
> has run fine!  Current uptime 19h32m.  It's not running Knoppix - it
> just has the drive in the CD!  
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas where to even start trying to troubleshoot
> this?
> 
> Regards,
> Ozz.
> 
> 
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