I would agree with looking into hardware problems - I have a MSI-694 dual
proc machine that about two or three months ago started rebooting once or
twice a week for no apparent reason, then one hot day it became several
times a day and I shut it down before going away for xmas. Now it won't even
attempt to start with both cpu's - with one it will boot but at one of the
hardware probes (just after keyboard) it restarts, as if someone is hitting
the reset button.
If it is failing hardware you may find no indication of the fault - the
faulty hardware may cause the same effect as someone pressing the reset
button - your logs would show normal operation then dmesg would show system
boot with disks unmounted properly and starting (or delaying) fsck.
On 13/1/05 8:06 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If this was something like a kernel panic there would be a
message in /var/log/messages
If nothing is in there then it's probably failing hardware.
My experiences in those cases is that no matter what logging you
turn on, nothing gets logged, the machine just reboots.
If it's a remote colocated server maybe the UPS it's on
is shot, and it's getting power fluctuations. Or maybe
it's overheating or it's clogged with dust.
Ted
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Pazarena
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:40 AM
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Subject: 4.9 rebooting
I have a remote server which has begun re-booting every few days.
Are there any logs which I can examine that may provide a clue as to
the reason? Or any logging I can turn on/up ? I realize that
during a reboot, logs are seldom up-to-date, but any clue would
be handy.
This is a remote co-located server which will take a fairly
expensive trip to get hands-on with. I'd like to have ammunition
at hand before I commit to the trip.
Thanks,
Jim
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