[TriLUG] help understanding /var/log/messages

[Brent Verner]

[2002-01-16 16:30] Geoff Purdy said:
| I've got a Dell PowerEdge 2450 server running RHL7.1 which has suddenly (as
| of today) started locking up.  The server will be running normally, then
| without warning ssh connections to it will freeze and as does X display on
| the box itself.  Strangely, it will respond to pings, but not HTTP requests,
| ssh, ftp, nfs, or any other service I have running.

What nfs clients are connecting to this box.  It looks like it /might/
be a problem with (or tickled by) nfsd.

| Jan 16 10:51:20 myserver kernel: Process nfsd (pid: 705, stackpage=f6c79000)

Try turning off nfsd if you're not serving any clients.  If the freezes
are new, and nothing has changed WRT the server's environment, suspect
hardware failing.

hth.
  b

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