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From: brian@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Brian Berndt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Sun 3/160 rebooting itself! ???
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Date: 28 Nov 90 17:45:45 GMT
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Has anyone seen this problem?  We were not logged on to our Sun 3/160,
when we noticed it had rebooted itself.  Looking in the /var/adm/messages
file we found...

Nov 16 12:02:12 brazil vmunix: panic: vn_rele
Nov 16 12:02:12 brazil vmunix: syncing file systems... done
Nov 16 12:02:12 brazil vmunix: 
Nov 16 12:02:12 brazil vmunix: dumping to vp f0efeb4, offset 49258
Nov 16 12:02:12 brazil vmunix: 1022 total pages, dump succeeded
Nov 16 12:02:12 brazil vmunix: rebooting...

The reboot procedure returned no errors, so the system seems to be
functioning normally, but why did it reboot.  I have never heard of
"vn_rele" and can not find any reference to this error.  

This computer did this once before, about 2 weeks ago.  Then also, we had
no idea why the system would reboot itself!

Brian Berndt 
brian@psych.purdue.edu