According to David Churchill: While burning my CPU.
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> I am running Slackware 3.5 (kernel 2.0.34) and I am experiencing random
> lock-ups that I can't pinpoint the cause for. They occur most frequently
> when the system is unattedned with the monitor screen blanked although
> they have occured several times while the computer is being used. There
> are no clues in /var/log/messages. I have replaced the motherboard, ram,
> and hard drives and the problem persists.
What you ask here is something like, look for a needle in a hay-stack.
1) Does the machine stop completly, can you type any commands and get a
responce.
2) Is the machine answering via eth0 to other machines, can you login via
telnet ??.
3) if the answer to 1) is; i can still type commands then what is the state
of 'free' 'ps -aux' etc..
Now, if i am not mistaken then you are using a ethernet driver which was
not considered stable when 2.0.34 was released, 2.0.34 is possably an answer
to your problem.
I for one would patch the kernel source to 2.0.37 recompile keeping my old
2.0.34 kernel as a backup and see what happens.
Unless you can produce some excerpts from any logfile indicating any
reoccuring problem then i'm sorry to say you are on your own, or at least i
would not know what more i could say.
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> Configuration is as follows:
>
> Intel Pentium 133, 64 MB Ram
> Fujitsu 2.1 GB HD with single partition mounted as /
> Maxtor 245 MB hard drive with one 160 MB swap partition and the remaining
> partition mounted as /dwnld
> S3 Virge Video card
> LinkSys EtherFast 10/100 MB/sec NIC (running at 10 Mb/sec)
>
> The box is used for IP Masq for a LAN and also serves as an IMAP server.
> My wife is the primary user and uses the box only for e-mail (Netscape
> 4.06 mail client).
>
> Netscape mail is usually left running on this machine throughout the day.
>
> Can anyone suggest any specific troubleshooting steps to try to pinpoint
> this problem. I can provide any relevant scripts and/or log outputs.
You said above there was nothing to indicate problems in /var/log/messages.
You could try running without X for a day and see what happens.
I could also say netscape-4.06 has problems, but as to it causing a total
lockup of the machine i doubt.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> David Churchill
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Regards Richard.
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