What command did you use to run your mem test? I just man'd memtest and did not come up with anything?
Thanks, H. Crissman On Thursday 03 February 2005 07:50 am, Knowles, Christopher wrote: > It's tracking Testing. (remember, it's a demo/test/temptation box, not > production) > > Just ran memtest and durned if the thing didn't freak out again. > > Thanks! > > CJK > > On Thursday 03 February 2005 07:34 am, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > Hmmmm - well, memory is always a possible culprit, as is processor > > temperature, but I don't remember if the k6/500 ones suffered much from > > that. Any cheapo SCSI stuff in there? I have some old SCSI CD-RW drives > > and a SCSI tape drive that periodically make my debian system lock up for > > reasons as yet undiagnosed. > > > > What's the kernel version? What debian version are you tracking? How up > > to date is the apt-get upgrade? > > > > Oh, and just so you know: the probability of a work emergency approaches > > 1 as TSMW/N approaches her first hour of sleep, then decreases from there > > :) > > > > ap > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin > > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Chris Knowles wrote: > > > I've got a Debian box I'm using to test/demo/tempt people at work with > > > some nifty features, and they're loving it. > > > > > > Until this morning. > > > > > > When, at 5 am, my pager goes off. (And since I'd only just gotten "The > > > Screaming Maw of Want/Need" to get back to sleep, she woke up too.) > > > > > > The box had gone down, and even though it's just a test, they want it > > > back up enough to pay me to come in early. > > > > > > Came in, and no panic, no errors, no nothing, just a completely > > > non-responsive computer. Rebooted and took a look around. Logs are > > > ticking normally along one minute, then the next entry is from the > > > reboot. After the reboot, all is ticking along famously again. > > > > > > I'm not looking for a specific answer to what the problem is, what I > > > would like is where to look for any ideas of what went wrong. > > > > > > (It's a box with Shorewall firewall, bind9, postfix, mailscanner, > > > clamav, spamassassin, webmin and a kitchen sink. It's got ~400MB RAM, > > > and 2 10GB HD in a software raid config. all with a AMDk6/500 > > > processor.) > > > > > > CJK > > > > > > PS: TSMW/N is *not* a nickname for my wife. It's what we've taken to > > > calling the daughter after more than 1 hour of fussiness in the wee > > > hours of the morning. > > > -- > > > TriLUG mailing list : > > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ > > > > > > : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > > > > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
