Hi, Recently I have had trouble with my Linux box crashing (or rather, hanging). Until last week it had an uptime of over a year, but now it has frozen after a couple of hours and a couple of days.
Is there any obvious place I can look for 'last thing I was doing before I died'? The symptoms are (this time round) local screen shows last system message (i.e. VGA is still running), local keyboard is unresponsive (CAPS LOCK light won't respond, and CTRL-ALT-DEL won't work). Can't get local console, can't ssh in. Ethernet lamps are on solid. I am inclined to blame the PSU dropping out for some reason (maybe too hot?), but I also heard the UPS beeping plaintively a couple of times recently when in fact there was plenty of power around (i.e. the lights were on...), so maybe that's on its way out. The system is an EPIA-5000 mini-ITX mobo, with 80Gb Seagate Barracuda in a Sereniti 2000 case. Even though this has only happened a few times I marvel at the robustness of the filesystem. Everything comes back with no trouble, and KDE starts up just how I left it. Hints and Tips would be welcomed, but I think it's just entropy. Thanks, Andy -- Now playing: Charles Aznavour - The Times We've Known
