[Leaplist] Strange symptoms...

[Jim Hartley]

I had a problem a while back  ... the cd drive light kept flashing and 
slowed everything down horribly ... but it was OK if there was a cd in 
the drive. Didn't reboot, but did act pretty flakey. Turned out it was 
some kind of automounter running, I think it was a media player looking 
for some music to play.

SO, try putting some OTHER cd in the drive and see if that stops the 
rebooting too. Maybe totally irrelevant, but it's an easy test to make.

Jim Hartley

Austin Denyer (Ozz) 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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