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. > > 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 Overheating perhaps? Give the fans and power supply a good blow out. When i put a second hard drive in my sereniti 2000 case and started compiling apps (gentoo y'know) it would sometimes just stop dead. Pulling the 240 v plug was the only way to get it back. There is some option you can put in your kernel that gives an option of getting messages from the dead by some keyboard combo. Search for sysreq and kernel IIRC.
