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    Random reboot - is there a way to know why ?

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      singerie
      last edited by

      Hello,

      When pfsense reboot randomly, is there a way to check what happened without a syslog ? any crash info ?

      Thanks

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Sounds like it may be a kernel panic. You could install a developer kernel and then instead of rebooting when it hits a panic, it will stop. You can then look at the console and see what the error is, get a backtrace ("bt" at the debug prompt) and then post them here for us to look over. Even if you don't have a serial console, a picture of the screen will work. Even a cell phone picture will be OK as long as it is legible.

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