how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread George Donnelly
hi two nights in a row now at different times one of my servers has locked up at different times (6:00AM, 3:40AM). No access is available even to keyboard, the machine does not ping. nothing unusual or special shows up in messages or dmesg. i have to hard-boot it. where do i start in debugging

Re: how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
First you should cvsup and rebuild everything to the latest release versions so all security fixes are loaded. With everything rebuilt, let it run and see if it still locks up. Did you change any hardware recently? -Derek At 07:17 AM 6/15/2006, George Donnelly wrote: hi two

Re: how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread George Donnelly
hi Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First you should cvsup and rebuild everything to the latest release versions so all security fixes are loaded. yes, that's already done. With everything rebuilt, let it run and see if it still locks up. yes, it still does. Did you change any

Re: how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Look at the other logs in /var/log to see if there are any log entries that might point to something. You can trim down the system and build a custom kernel, and go through /etc/rc.conf and /usr/local/etc/rc.d and make sure you are only starting essential services. Depending on what you are