On Mon, 01 May 2006 18:25:50 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. [snip] > -- > Now playing: Charles Aznavour - The Times We've Known Bored to death by the music choice??? I've had a similar problem with my new mega-server. I *think* I've fixed it by installing the correct graphics drivers - I was using vesa as the latest nvidia ones couldn't see the chip. A new release and it could. I think it was scribbling out of the memory allocated for the graphics, and the end result was a system that had stopped dead, but the screen was still displaying, but no response to anything, anywhere, anyhow. Apart from that, look in /var/log/messages, and /var/log/syslog to see if there is anything ( there wasn't on mine ). You could also guess at a memory problem - try memtest or just stuff another stick in? Have you updated any graphics stuff lately?? Steve Reminds me of an old DG Unix server I used to look after that came up "Power fa" on the sys console when you switched it off (:
