[cobalt-users] RaQ3 keeps rebooting?

[Paul Ferwerda <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm seeing some curious behavior on a RaQ3.

I'm having memory problems and while I'm trying to figure out what is causing them, I figured I'd create a file in my /etc/cron.daily directory that contains the following:


#!/bin/sh

/sbin/shutdown -r +3

This way once a day things gets released and the box doesn't get into the state where it responds to pings but both the admin and regular web server are unreachable and SSH no longer works.


What is happening is that the system reboots as expected, however, some number of minutes later (say 10-15) it attempts to reboot again. If I let the system reboot, it does so and then some number of minutes later it reboots again.  I finally end up killing it with a /sbin/shutdown -c.

I've done something similar on a RaQ4 that was having memory problems and on that machine it reboots as expected and then doesn't reboot again until the next time cron is scheduled to reboot it.

Anyone have any ideas as to what might be happening or if there are some debugging options I might use.  I didn't see any debug options to crond.

Thanks,
Paul