On Saturday 16 December 2006 20:24, Stephen Schaff wrote: > I've got 4.0 running nicely on a server sitting in a data centre, > thanks to the help of the members of this list. > It's been up since Nov. 22nd and in production. > > Yesterday it inexplicably went dark. I went down to check it out, and > hooked up the monitor and keyboard. I could see the welcoming login > prompt, but it wouldn't accept any input. It wasn't accepting any > pings from a remote system on the network either. The only word I > have for that is frozen - if there's better terminology out there - > please let me know. > > Anyway, after hard booting the machine, and rebuilding the raid - I > checked all the log files I could think of and can't find a thing. > Nada. Then - it went down again today! I'm not sure what to do now. > > So, I thought I would post my dmesg here and see if it grabs the > attention of anyone who knows better than I do. Any insight would be > much appreciated. It turns my stomach to think I'd have to reinstall > with a different OS. > > Best Regards, > Stephen
If things have been running for nearly a month and now you've crashed twice in two days, that says that the system was just fine, and now things have gone to hell. You have new hardware problems. I'd first suspect ram. Get memtest86 and run it for 24 hours or so. I'd also take the raid array and stuff it into another identical computer. You do have a spare system for this production service, don't you? --STeve Andre'
