On 8/25/21 8:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > For the past few months my home server (running an ascii installation > physically moved from another computer) has been suddenly stopping all > processing about once a month. apparently at random. It seems to stop > instantly, leaving power on and becoming completely responsive to ping, > existing ssh connexions and use of the physical keyboard. > > The system log, after a reboot, shows nothing unusual except of course > that there are no log entries for a shut-down. > > Can anyone provide ideas about tracking this down? > > It could of course be a random rare intermittent hardware error. > > -- hendrik > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > I had the same problem on a work station running ASCII. Since I could access the system from another machine on the LAN and even log in, I guessed that it was Xorg. Killing X Via a remote login cleared the problem. With the use of sar and other tools, I determined it was the video card and/or NVIDIA's drivers (kernel modules). Switched back to the system board's video (AMD) and the problem went away.
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