Periodic reboots

Every week or so, I get an email that my MBL has restarted. This started some time in March, a few weeks after 02.41.05 was released. I didn’t update to 02.41.05 since my MBL is working and I don’t want to break things. I’m still running 02.32.05.

Why is the MBL restarting every few weeks?

Any chance you are have power loss, total or partial?

I have had my units running for a couple years and have not experienced what you are talking about. . .

Is there any kind of pattern, or an approx. time period?

Nope, no power failures. The drive is on a UPS anyway. What’s odd is that it said it rebooted 9:40 PM yesterday according to the email, but my router reports it requested a DHCP update this morning. I have a 7 day lease set up so if it rebooted last night, I would expect it to show it renewed the lease last night. Then again, the reported time could be wrong since I didn’t get the email yesterday.

I don’t actually see anything in the log about a reboot.  I do see that it’s sending me an email at least every week telling me to upgrade, which I wish it wouldn’t do.  There’s is something about a “restart” on April 7th, but I got an email this morning April 10th.

Apr  6 23:22:35 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 41981 (since 2013-04-06 11:42:54.119318668 -0400)
Apr  6 23:56:27 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 1424 (since 2013-04-06 23:32:43.915318973 -0400)
Apr  7 00:02:04 MyBookLive kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Apr  7 00:02:04 MyBookLive rsyslogd: [origin software=“rsyslogd” swVersion=“3.18.6” x-pid=“2880” x-info=" http://www.rsyslog.com"] restart
Apr  7 00:28:26 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 1310 (since 2013-04-07 00:06:35.991319410 -0400)
Apr  7 00:57:09 MyBookLive kernel: md: data-check of RAID array md0
Apr  7 00:57:09 MyBookLive kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_  speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk.
Apr  7 00:57:09 MyBookLive kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for data-check.
Apr  7 00:57:09 MyBookLive kernel: md: using 2048k window, over a total of 1999808 blocks.
Apr  7 00:57:09 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 1114 (since 2013-04-07 00:38:35.051319554 -0400)
Apr  7 00:57:54 MyBookLive kernel: md: md0: data-check done.
Apr  7 03:00:10 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 6771 (since 2013-04-07 01:07:18.047317552 -0400)
Apr  7 03:00:12 MyBookLive logger: WD NAS: Email alerts sent OK
Apr  7 03:01:10 MyBookLive logger: send mediacrawler 7520 wakeup signal
Apr  7 03:05:03 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda1 from md0 …
Apr  7 03:05:03 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda2 from md0 …
Apr  7 03:20:30 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 7 (since 2013-04-07 03:20:23.751314204 -0400)
Apr  7 03:58:25 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 1666 (since 2013-04-07 03:30:39.679318516 -0400)
Apr  7 06:33:10 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 8676 (since 2013-04-07 04:08:34.227319250 -0400)
Apr  7 20:40:02 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 50203 (since 2013-04-07 06:43:19.251318301 -0400)
Apr  8 03:00:09 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 22199 (since 2013-04-07 20:50:10.855317822 -0400)
Apr  8 03:05:02 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda1 from md0 …
Apr  8 03:05:02 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda2 from md0 …
Apr  8 05:49:21 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 9543 (since 2013-04-08 03:10:18.387319341 -0400)
Apr  9 03:00:09 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 75640 (since 2013-04-08 05:59:29.775319482 -0400)
Apr  9 03:05:02 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda1 from md0 …
Apr  9 03:05:02 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda2 from md0 …
Apr  9 05:52:20 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 9722 (since 2013-04-09 03:10:18.611318748 -0400)
Apr 10 03:00:10 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 75461 (since 2013-04-09 06:02:29.415318439 -0400)
Apr 10 03:00:12 MyBookLive logger: WD NAS: Email alerts sent OK
Apr 10 03:01:11 MyBookLive logger: send mediacrawler 7520 wakeup signal
Apr 10 03:05:05 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda1 from md0 …
Apr 10 03:05:05 MyBookLive kernel: md: cannot remove active disk sda2 from md0 …
Apr 10 03:20:21 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 7 (since 2013-04-10 03:20:14.475317673 -0400)
Apr 10 04:10:40 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 2410 (since 2013-04-10 03:30:30.327318560 -0400)
Apr 10 04:24:50 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 241 (since 2013-04-10 04:20:49.403319250 -0400)
Apr 10 20:15:35 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 56436 (since 2013-04-10 04:34:59.351318808 -0400)
Apr 10 20:26:59 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 76 (since 2013-04-10 20:25:43.743319730 -0400)
Apr 10 20:47:46 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 154 (since 2013-04-10 20:45:12.971318004 -0400)
Apr 10 21:19:45 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 1310 (since 2013-04-10 20:57:55.151318122 -0400)
Apr 10 21:36:56 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 422 (since 2013-04-10 21:29:54.123320134 -0400)
Apr 10 21:51:44 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 279 (since 2013-04-10 21:47:05.047319180 -0400)
Apr 10 22:23:43 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 1310 (since 2013-04-10 22:01:53.179318490 -0400)
Apr 10 22:54:18 MyBookLive logger: exit standby after 1226 (since 2013-04-10 22:33:52.223318587 -0400)

According to the wdalerts.log, the last restart was in January.