On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:45:38AM +0100, Tom Bamford wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having problems with a Dell Poweredge 1900sc server recently > converted to Ubuntu server 6.06 from Win2k. Although the system is > performing beyond expectations as a web/mail/file server, twice now it > has simply frozen overnight.
Ouch. Have you just got the one 1900sc running (of the same build-date/age) Server? > Looking at the system/kernel logs hasn't revealed anything, there is > nothing out of the ordinary at around or just before the crash time, and > nothing else recorded in the logs until the machine is rebooted the next > morning. I take it you've included dmesg(8) outputs in your checks. > Symptoms of the crash are that the local monitor goes blank, > keyboard and mouse appear to be dead, no network services are working > (Apache, Samba, Openssh etc). The system does however answer to ping > requests. The only solution seems to be a hard reset. Is anything else on the circuit? Are the boxen connected to a UPS -- if so, have you tested that? -- try and rule out electrical faults if you can. > Where else can I look other than the logs in /var/log to try and find > out what is causing this? Have you looked in the machines' CMOS settings, for anything annoying like Power-Management, disk-shut downs, that sort of thing? I'd be inclined to whack on some monitoring software, and see if that reports anything. Failing that, it may be worth running tcpdump(8)... HTH a ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
