HELP!! My machine keeps rebooting
 

Hi my machine is a FreeBSD system so not Linux per se but I thought I'd ask for help here anyway as I am in a panic. My system keeps rebooting. It comes up, goes through its sequence and then reboots again. It comes up on the network. I can ssh into it and then after about 20 minutes I'm kicked off again as it reboots again.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Without any sort of details, there is nothing much we can help with. If you can get in for 20 minutes, then download the log files as quickly as you can, and see what they say. There has to be SOME sort of hint as to what's going on...if not, you may be having a hardware problem. But again, without details, we can't even guess.

Is it a software problem or hardware one? Without allowing to boot straight to freebsd, can you pause the boot process; example getting into bios screen or hanging in boot loader screen. Wait for 20 or 60 minutes.

What I am trying to say is isolate the problem one by one. First determine if it is a particular OS problem,if can't be determined goto a level deeper by seeing system functioning with just BIOS loaded. Or not because of a corrupted BIOS. Then it may be regarded as hardware problem.

If it's a hardware problem then a malfunctioning reboot or power switch, loose memory card, interface connectors, overheating cpu, non running cpu fan coolers, mulfunctioning power supply, loose power cords and etc.

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Thanks guys,

Strangely it has stopped rebooting. The problem seems to be however that IP addresses are not getting assigned to the interfaces at reboot.
They are set in the rc.conf file but when the machine reboots none of the vlans have an IP address. I notice in the rc.conf file that route definnitions
are added before the ifconfig commands. Would that make any difference?

Yes, since if the interfaces aren't configured, the routes can't be added, since the system doesn't know anything about any networks at that point.