Rebooting after kernel panic

Hello,

I run a small server under FreeBSD 5.3, but it's very unstable (kernel panics) and I don't have time to debug it.

So I customized the GENERIC kernel by adding these options, in order to automatically reboot the server every time it panics (this is apparently NOT the default behaviour in 5.3):

makeoptions DEBUG=-g

options KDB
options KDB_UNATTENDED
options DDB

But it still won't reboot. It just shows the usual message saying there was a page fault while in kernel mode, and a prompt appears on screen. I can't reboot from that prompt.

Please tell me why adding KDB_UNATTENDED has no effect and what I should do to obtain the desired behaviour.

Thank you.

Nicolas

(this was posted on freebsd-questions as well)

Had the same problem - solution is simple

Open your case, clean it out, remove your memory cards, wipe the gold contacts with a screen cleaning cloth, clean the memory slots and replace.

If this does not help, replace the faulty memory card. - You have a flaky memory page fault which normally is a physical problem