-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 04 November 2002 10:17 pm, Jim C wrote: > Man, oh man... 15 different kinds of wierdness... > > Jim C wrote: > >> When it "shuts down" what happens if you try to ssh into it. If it's a > > > > No response. Were talkin total lockup here. I have to restart. > > It is not a webserver. > > > >> suspect that perhaps apm or APIC (hope I got the right acronym here.) is > >> > >Tried disabeling apic - no dice. Also tried nopentium kernel > >parameter. This is an older Athlon. > > > >> trying to put the box to sleep. If so turn off or even remove apm from > >> the box and boot with an append of "noapic". > > > > Done this already. It is covered in Mandrake errata. > > I'm thinking now that it may be a network issue that is causeing the > > problem rather than a video issue. Cable service in this town sux and > > is up and down frequently. Although I may be wrong, sometimes trouble > > on the network seems to coincide with the shutdown. > > OK, so here is the speil... > > My server has been locking up on me after an unspecified amount of time. > Sometimes it locks up during a re-install but I think only after the > network has been configured. I'ld had some much trouble with it that I > took it down and jacked a client system (WinXP) directly into the cable > modem. Left it running all night and in the morning, guess what... lockup! > > So... 2 different machines and 3 different OS's. Windows XP pro and > Linux Mandrake versions 8.2 and 9.0. Also recently had hardware trouble > with a 3rd system. What could possibly be causeing this? It is a > fairly recent occurance, all 3 machines worked fine all summer with XP > and Mandrake 8.2 as the server. I'm out of ideas so I need some > brainstorming, guys.
Maybe the cmos battery needs to be replaced. Solved my problem when I had the same situation that you are having now. - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Altoine B Maximum Time Unlimited Chicago Based and Operated http://pgp.mit.edu - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your reasoning powers are good, and you are a fairly good planner. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2.4.19-16mdk Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yHGGxjybQmhmUgYRAhVuAJ9saUFCETJCHgZEQGWQpX4kUMcKcwCcC0dJ 2ltO5LURfRQRfp+fdqISivA= =GTcA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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