thanks for the tips, i've checked all of the filesystems but the come up clean, (when i reboot after the hang it does give some errors and cleans them ). would you say it was more than likely a hardware problem though rather than software ? (i.e. i want to get my boss to buy me a better PC ) thanks Jamie >From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jamie Kerwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:40:41 -0400 > >On Tuesday 11 September 2001 06:15, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > > how do i go about using fsck. I've tried fsck -A -C and it gave me a > > warning about mounted filesystems. Can i just unmount all of my >partitions, > > fsck and then remount , or do i have to do it partition at a time? > > > > Jamie > > >partition at a time... and of course you have to boot the rescue CD to >check >/. > > > > > > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jamie Kerwick" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Subject: Re: [newbie] System crashing need advice to find the problem > > >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:57:00 -0400 > > > > > >On Tuesday 11 September 2001 04:28, Jamie Kerwick wrote: > > > > Up until thursday night my linux box had been working perfectly now >it > > > > keeps freezing up when i leave it on overnight. Now initially i >thought > > > > > >it > > > > > > > my be a cron job that was crashing it as it seemed to happen at >similar > > > > times. From the cron logs the last entry was 3am everynight. So i >tried > > > > manually running each of the daily cron jobs seperately and they all > > > > > >seemed > > > > > > > to work fine (this was yesterday) now when i came to my desk this > > > > > >morning > > > > > > > the box had frozen at 5.09 pm (the clock was visible). Basically >what i > > > > would like to know is how to go about finding out what the problem >is, > > > > > >ie > > > > > > > what logs should i be looking at etc. (its a long shot but if anyone > > > > has any ideas please share, i don't expect any to though from such a > > > > vague, general description) > > > > > > > > cheers > > > > > > > > jamie > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > > > > > >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >updatedb or makewhatis > > > > > >My guess would be ide-hdd > > > > > >try to use an fsck check for your filesystem(s) and see what happens. > > > > > >The other obvious one would be memory, but usually that will show ALL >the > > >time. > > > > > >Civileme > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at >http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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