Re: AlphaServer 1200 powering off by itself.


james <at> hal-pc.org wrote:
Chuck Whealton wrote:
Is it running Digital/Tru64 UNIX? Did you check the message logs?

no. it's running FreeBSD 5.4, however it will power down if left at
the SRM for a couple of days too. i get "Powerup Failure" on the LCD
after it's cooled down (30+ minutes) and decides to boot again, but i'm
not quite sure what message logs you're referring to. does the SRM keep
logs? if so how may i access them?
sorry if this is OT, but i didn't see any groups just for DEC hardware.
i have an identical system, but single CPU, running a mirror image of
the OS (dd from one to another) that "just works", however if it's been
running for several days (3 or so) and i reboot it will often times
power off before loading the graphic console as well and won't power up
properly until it has sat for a while. that one has yet to power down
when running and it's been up for 6-8 months at a time.. i tossed
another 1200 because it wouldn't stay on for longer than 24 hrs before
powering down (that one was running CentOS). seems to be a problem with
the 1200 but i haven't been able to come up with any pointers googling.
My 2 AlphaPC 164lx machines work great (both of which have FBSD 5.4 on
them)
any other ideas?

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James, unfortunately I don't have any real experience with FreeBSD. It
had always been my experience that the Alphas were reasonably rock
solid technology and if it was overheating, I'd have expected (not a
given) that it would write something to either it's own syslog or the
event log, which you could view with one of Digital/Compaq's utilities
(DECEvent?). I wouldn't know where to start with FreeBSD except to
look and see if anything was wrtting to your syslog file. Sorry...

In the end, I'd have to question if it's really a problem with several
different 1200's, though. That's very strange. Did you get them from
the same place?

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com

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