On 20 Feb 2006 at 16:08, Benson Wong wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to isolate a problem. I have bacula 1.38.5 running on
> FreeBSD 6.0R and the system seems to be crashing hard. It doesn't seem
> to core dump, and there is nothing in the logs, it just stop becoming
> responsive.
> 
> The system responds to pings (sometimes), but I can not SSH in. Before
> it crashed so bad the local keyboard didn't even work. A reboot would
> fix things, but it would become unstable again quickly. I have similar
> hardware running FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.4 with no stability problems.

If you're not running Bacula, does the same problem occur?

> The server is a dedicated backup box so there are no other network
> daemons (besides SSH/sendmail) running.

It could be something unrelated to bacula.

Try a tail -F /var/log/messages and leave it running in an SSH 
session.

> Anybody have similar problems? I'm thinking it may be a weird hardware
> problem with the RAM or the CPU, and was going to swap HDDs into a
> spare box. I wanted to ask here first before tearing the box apart.

Start with the PSU.

-- 
Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work
my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php




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