[TriLUG] Debian box Just stops.

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Chris Knowles wrote:

>...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.)
>  
>
Sounds like hardware.  Check the caps, run memtest, if it's not on a 
UPS, perhaps consider the power supply.  If you have a way to know if 
there was a brownout at that time period (ala other UPSes that do 
reporting via apcupsd or some-such), power supply might be a suspect.

Other than that, if you can't reliably make it fail, it's of course 
difficult to troubleshoot.  :(

Aaron S. Joyner