> Is the system doing a proper reboot or does it have to fsck the drives after
> it reboots? And what flavor of Linux is this BTW?

Mandrake

Like I stated earlier, I was logged in when the system booted this morning
and I did not see any broadcast messages.  i have since enabled kernel
logging and hopefully that will provide some other information as to the
situation.  In the meantime...

Here is the boot messages from /var/log/messages:

Nov 29 06:01:00 www anacron[2335]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.hourly'
to 2000-11-29
Nov 29 06:18:39 www -- MARK --
Nov 29 06:38:39 www -- MARK --
Nov 29 06:58:51 www syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.2.13-7mdksmp
Nov 29 06:58:51 www syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Loaded 6360 symbols from
/boot/System.map-2.2.13-7mdksmp.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.13.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Loaded 66 symbols from 4 modules.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Linux version 2.2.13-7mdksmp
(root at kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2$
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:     Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: OEM ID: COMPAQ   Product ID: PROSIGNIA    APIC
at: 0xFEE00000
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 16
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: I/O APIC #8 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Processors: 1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000)
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000)
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Detected 398799645 Hz processor.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 398.13 BogoMIPS
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Memory: 127576k/131072k available (1100k
kernel code, 424k reserved, 1580k$
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0
initialized
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using
exception 16 error reporting.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch
(rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 100.19 usecs.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: CPU1: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: calibrating APIC timer ...
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ..... CPU clock speed is 398.8052 MHz.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ..... system bus clock speed is 99.7011 MHz.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Error: only one processor found.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: init IO_APIC IRQs
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  IO-APIC pin 0, 5, 9,
10WARNING: ASSIGN_IRQ_VECTOR wrapped back to 52
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: , 32, 33, 34 not connected.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: number of MP IRQ sources: 41.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: number of IO-APIC registers: 35.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: testing the IO APIC.......................
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .... register #00: 00000000
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .......    : physical APIC id: 00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .... register #01: 00220011
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .......     : max redirection entries: 0022
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:           to linux-smp at vger.rutgers.edu
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .......     : IO APIC version: 0011
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .... register #02: 00000000
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .......     : arbitration: 00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .... IRQ redirection table:
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli
Vect:
Nov 29 06:58:52 www atd: atd startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  00 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  01 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
59
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  02 0FF 0F  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
51
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  03 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
61
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  04 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
69
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  05 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  06 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
71
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  07 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
79
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  08 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
81
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  09 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  0a 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  0b 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
89
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  0c 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
91
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  0d 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  0e 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
99
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  0f 000 00  0    0    0   0   0    1    1
A1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  10 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
A9
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  11 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
B1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  12 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
B9
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  13 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
C1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  14 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
C9
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  15 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
D1   
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  16 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
D9
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  17 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
E1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  18 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
E9
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  19 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
F1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  1a 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
F9
Nov 29 06:58:52 www crond: crond startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  1b 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
52
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  1c 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
5A
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  1d 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
62
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  1e 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
6A
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  1f 0FF 0F  1    1    0   1   0    1    1
72
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  20 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  21 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  22 000 00  1    0    0   0   0    0    0
00
Nov 29 06:58:52 www inet: inetd startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: .................................... done.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0080   
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Nov 29 06:58:52 www sshd: Starting sshd:
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I6,P0) -> 31
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I6,P1) -> 30
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I7,P0) -> 29
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PCI: Device 00:a0 not found by BIOS
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society
NET3.039
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux
NET4.0.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.5
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS
MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Nov 29 06:58:53 www sshd: sshd
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of
4096K size
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev a1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs
later
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2c30-0x2c37, BIOS
settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: hda: COMPAQ CR-589, ATAPI CDROM drive
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: hda: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache 
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: scsi : detected total.
Nov 29 06:58:53 www rc: Starting sshd succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Partition check:
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running
e2fsck is recommended
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 0
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 6, function 1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c8xx: 53c876 detected
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0: rev=0x14, base=0xc6ffcf00,
io_port=0x2000, irq=31
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0: on-chip RAM at 0xc6fff000
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0: restart (scsi reset).
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-1: rev=0x14, base=0xc6ffce00,
io_port=0x2400, irq=30
Nov 29 06:58:53 www sshd[420]: log: Server listening on port 22.
Nov 29 06:58:53 www sshd[420]: log: Generating 768 bit RSA key.
Nov 29 06:58:53 www sshd[420]: log: RSA key generation complete.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-1: NCR clock is 40037KHz, 40218KHz
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-1: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-1: on-chip RAM at 0xc6ffe000   
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-1: restart (scsi reset).
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-1: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: scsi1 : ncr53c8xx - version 3.2a-2
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:   Vendor: COMPAQ    Model: BB00921B91
Rev: 3B05
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:   Vendor: COMPAQ    Model: BB00921B91
Rev: 3B05
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id
1, lun 0
Nov 29 06:58:53 www lpd: lpd startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth
set to 8
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0-<1,0>: tagged command queue depth
set to 8
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s
(50 ns, offset 15)
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512
bytes. Sectors= 17773524 [8678 MB] [8.7 $
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 >
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: ncr53c876-0-<1,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s
(50 ns, offset 15)
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512
bytes. Sectors= 17773524 [8678 MB] [8.7 $
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel:  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 >
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=1
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Trying to unmount old root ... okay      
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
Nov 29 06:58:54 www keytable: Loading keymap:
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: TLAN driver, v1.0, (C) 1997-8 Caldera, Inc.
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: TLAN:  eth0 irq=29 io=2c20, Compaq Netelligent
Integrated 10/100 TX UTP, R$
Nov 29 06:58:51 www kernel: TLAN:  eth0: Starting autonegotiation.
Nov 29 06:58:55 www kernel: TLAN:  eth0: Autonegotiation complete.
Nov 29 06:58:55 www kernel: TLAN:  eth0: Link active.
Nov 29 06:58:55 www kernel: TLAN:  eth0: Link active.
Nov 29 06:58:54 www keytable: Loading
/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz 
Nov 29 06:58:54 www keytable: Loading system font:
Nov 29 06:58:54 www rc: Starting keytable succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:55 www sendmail: sendmail startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:56 www httpd: httpd: cannot determine local host name.
Nov 29 06:58:56 www httpd: Use the ServerName directive to set it
manually.
Nov 29 06:58:56 www httpd: httpd startup failed
Nov 29 06:58:56 www PAM_pwdb[504]: (su) session opened for user xfs by
(uid=100)
Nov 29 06:58:57 www PAM_pwdb[504]: (su) session closed for user xfs
Nov 29 06:58:57 www xfs: xfs startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:57 www smb: smbd startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:57 www smb: nmbd startup succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:57 www rc: Starting agent.be succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:57 www linuxconf: Linuxconf final setup
Nov 29 06:58:59 www rc: Starting linuxconf succeeded
Nov 29 06:58:59 www rc: Starting local succeeded


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