Ever since I upgraded to the new cooker (2.96 based) from the old cooker
(2.95), several things seem to die unexpectedly leaving no trace.
For example:
1. I have a backup script that uses dump. Some times it runs fine, but
some times the spawned dump processes stop dumping and hang in there
doing nothing; I do an strace on them and they show to be in "pause(".
2. The xfs server dies without leaving any trace of it's dead when you
probe some fonts with any application; those fonts worked fine before.
3. Some times when my ISP hangs my ppp connection, pppwatch dies
unexpectedly while reconnecting, again without a trace, and my machine
just stays off-line. This is very bad, since if I am traveling, there is
no way to access my machine if it falls into this condition (unless I
run a script to monitor for this problem). Anyway, this happens only
some times.
This could all be several different problems, but I doubt it, since all
started at the same time when I upgraded to the new cooker, and they all
exhibit the same behavior of not leaving any trace in any log or
anything.
Any one having similar problems?
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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