[TriLUG] Debian box Just stops.

[Joel Ebel]

It locked up during memtest?  Then you can rule out software.  Were 
there any memory errors reported as it locked up?  Did the screen stay 
up when it locked up?  Can you make it through a memtest without it 
locking up or does it lock up about the same time each time?  Processor 
temp is a good thing to check.  As is, as Aaron mention, the caps on the 
board.  If you have another power supply, I'd try that too.  In fact, 
I've been dealing with a computer recently that locked up similarly due 
to bad, but generally sufficient, power.

Good luck,
Joel

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
>>clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * 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.
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