Mysterious Reboot
My server mysteriously rebooted a few days ago. I’ve checked the logs and I can’t figure out what caused it. It’s possible someone pressed the power button and put the system in a shutdown mode, I did have some nieces and nephews over that night. Still…the system wasn’t that accessible, the power button had tape blocking it which didn’t appear to be disturbed. Plus if the power button was pressed why did the system start back up. I dunno…I’m confused. A few days before the power went off for about 45 minutes and the UPS kept the server and DSL running fine. Then the next day my uptime gets put all the way back to 0 from this, oh well.
November 16th, 2003 at 8:23 pm
Being the technical genius that I am, I know the solution…
…ghosts.
Yep, there’s no other logical scenario out there. I’d stick with Casper and take your chances with the skeptics.
November 17th, 2003 at 11:17 am
You could have had a kernel panic and it rebooted. Check /proc/sys/kernel/panic, if it’s >0 then it will reboot after the set number of seconds when a kernel panic occurs. Another one could be that you had a power surge and it reset the system. If your BIOS is set to “Power on after power failure” then that would do it fit that scenario. Oh yes, then of course there are ghosts…
November 17th, 2003 at 1:04 pm
Skeptic.
November 17th, 2003 at 1:45 pm
phasmophobiac.
November 17th, 2003 at 1:58 pm
Mike, perhaps you should give these guys a call:
http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?PhobiaID=1857&SDID=6472
Oh mercy, these guys are totally serious too.
November 17th, 2003 at 9:01 pm
Well I checked the kernel file, it’s set to 0. I thought about a power problem but I assume the system wouldn’t have shut down cleanly in that case. The log files seem to indicate it was a clean reboot, all the services shut down properly, etc. I’m placing my bet on someone (or something
) pressing the power or reset button.
On the bright side, I now have a nice big new word to add to my vocabulary and I know where to look for help with my ghost phobia. Jason, if I remember correctly you don’t do so well with scary movies, correct? So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised you know what a phasmophobiac is :).
Anyway, about Mike, since he became a pharmacist and started self medicating he’s mellowed out a lot (regarding the ghost paranoia anyway) :).
November 18th, 2003 at 1:18 pm
Did you say self-medicating? No, never, never.
And you guys shouldn’t phasmophobiac. You’ll go blind.