Intermittent Reboots

[photontech]

Recently my FreeNAs 9.1.2.9 started rebooting on its own getting more frequent. System has been running for a couple of years now. It definitely seems to reboot when I go into the WebGUI. It will also reboot when it has nothing being accessed on the system. Any possibility this software related? If so, how do you track down the problem? The only other thing is a bad Power Supply? Also, I cannot seem to find the syslog in the GUI. Thank you.

 

[joeschmuck]

This is difficult to answer without doing some investigative testing.

1) Are all the fans running in the computer? This means, Power Supply, CPU, Case Fans, Graphics Card Fans.
2) Run the Burn-In tests such as MemTest86 and a CPU Stress test. If those pass then your hardware is likely just fine.
3) If you do not have a backup of your FreeNAS configuration file, ensure you make one now.
4) If the hardware tests pass then install a new USB Flash drive (assuming you are using a USB flash drive to boot from since you didn't specify) and install FreeNAS 9.1.2.9 and restore your configuration file.

Report back if something fails or you have more questions. If you have more questions, please post your system configuration.

EDIT: I don't know if you are testing your hard drives regularly but if not, you need to do that too.

 

[photontech]

Thank you for the info. I just swapped out the power supply X-ing my fingers. Yes all 5 system fans, CPU fan and PS fan was/and is now working. I thought of heat also but the CPU heatsink was as cool as could be at the underneath bottom of the sink. No I did not back up my config and will do that now thank you for the suggestion. There is one thing I do not understand though - how do you run Burn-In test on a FreeNAS system? How is the software loaded? What is "regularly" when checking the HDs? Thanks again.

 

[photontech]

1 other thing I noticed after restarting, and this has been happening all day, it shows the date and time then -freenas smdb[3095]: STATUS=daemon 'smbd' finished starting up and ready to serve connectionsWARNING: The "null passwords" option is depracated.

 

[photontech]

I forgot to write that is keeps repeating itself every 5 minutes or so. That's the last thing for me to say.

 

[MrToddsFriends]

There is one thing I do not understand though - how do you run Burn-In test on a FreeNAS system? How is the software loaded?

Memtest and CPU stress test requires software not shipped with FreeNAS. See for example section "Burn-In and Testing" in this posting and sections 4 a,b in this guide.

What is "regularly" when checking the HDs? Thanks again.

This posting may serve as a starting point. Omit the part describing scrubs if you are using UFS (not ZFS).

That's the last thing for me to say.

You omitted to post your system specs (hardware information) as asked for by joeschmuck and as requested in the Forum Rules.

 

[photontech]

Sorry about the ommitting of the hardware. Gigabyte GA-F2A88XM-D3H MB, 8 GB of Corsair XMS RAM and an AMD A6-5400K APU. I now have a 600W PS instead of a 700W PS and no optical drive. Since I changed the PS no more reboots since the change about 17 hrs ago. I am sorry also to not explain my question about the software. I know MEMtest and the CPU testing are not included in FreeNAS and you have to download them. What I meant is how do you get them installed into the FreeNAS OS and then access the programs to run them? I am a knowledgeable Window person and know very little, practically nothing, about UNIX/Linux. Thank you for all your help

 

[joeschmuck]

I know MEMtest and the CPU testing are not included in FreeNAS and you have to download them. What I meant is how do you get them installed into the FreeNAS OS and then access the programs to run them?

You don't install them, you run them off of a bootable USB Flash drive or CD/DVD. I prefer the UBCD (search Google for "UBCD") and this is a bootable image, it contains many types free testing software. I would highly recommend that you still run the MemTest86 and a CPU Stress Test to ensure you have a sound system.

Good Luck.

 

[photontech]

I will.Thank you for all the information and help!