I think you really need to :

1. Upgrade to 4.4
2. Get a snapshot if it happens again
3. CONFIRM that your system resources are available before assuming its  a
sipx OR date tung. It's more likely a DOS attack and you aren't looking for
it...

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Tim Byng <[email protected]> wrote:

> This morning I came into work and found that I had issues with my sipXecs
> instance. Here are the symptoms:
>
>    - Web admin / user portal down
>    - All phones not registered to sipXecs
>    - sipXecs not registered to ITSP
>    - sipXecs machine responds to ping
>    - sipXecs machine is accessible through putty
>
> I rebooted the machine and noticed that the XFS service failed to start up.
>
> I figured it might be a hardware failure, so I grabbed a known working
> backup and restored it on my backup machine. This backup is a disk image,
> not a sipXecs backup. I have tested this procedure a number of times in the
> past (even with the same backup) and it has always worked as expected. This
> time, however, I ran into the exact same symptoms as I did with the primary
> machine. Based on this, the chances that it's a hardware issue are low
> (same symptoms with two different machines).
>
> The only thing that I could think of is that it had something to do with
> the date and time. So I set the date in the bios to a day after the backup
> was created, restored the backup again and voila, it worked! Once I set the
> date back to the current date, the problem happened again.
>
> My sipXecs reboots once a week Monday mornings, so the date in question
> was likely sometime between June 18th and 25th.
>
> I am using sipXecs 4.2.0.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? Since it's date related, I
> was thinking that maybe it could be a virus that's dormant until a certain
> date? I did a search, but didn't find anything that sounded like it could
> be related. I'm not too familiar with viruses on Linux (or with Linux
> itself).
>
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