Re: Spontaneous reboots on 5.99.59/i386 on a Thinkpad X41

[Rares Aioanei <bsdlisten%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 02/28/2012 04:03 PM, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My Thinkpad X41 keeps rebooting itself (i386/5.99.59). It usually
> happens when I try to start urxvt, after the program is already running
> but just before it tries to create it's X window. Other X applications
> like xterm work. This also happens if I use /netbsd.old as kernel (also
> 5.99.59, but a bit older). This happened out of the blue. I remember
> being able to use the very same urxvt on the very same kernel a few days
> before it started rebooting.
>
> This is completely weird, but one reason I can think of is that the
> filesystem is hosed by my previous experiments with fss(4).
>
> Has anyone experienced similar problems? Can it a hosed filesystem
> really be the reason for this?
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Moritz
I got spontaneous reboots because of that on NetBSD and FreeBSD, IIRC. 
So yes, that might be the cause. What experiments did you perform 
exactly? Did you try fsck?

Best,

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