[TriLUG] Debian box Just stops.

[Andrew Perrin]

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

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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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.
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