[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD box rebooting itself

[Matt Juszczak]

Problem started today @ 8:30 AM or so...

Nov 12 07:38:47 pluto sshd[73708]: error: PAM: authentication error for 
illegal user soandso from ipaddress
Nov 12 08:41:59 pluto syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel

So you can see this was a hard reboot since no "reboot" was issued or 
anything (and I got disk mount complaints later in dmesg):

WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted



Just happened again about 20 minutes ago.


My first guess is a hardware issue (power supply, etc.), but does anyone 
know of any other possibilities?  I'm hoping this isn't some super hidden 
reboot root kit or something.


-MJ