[TriLUG] Debian box Just stops.

Hugh Crissman hcrissman at secure-mind.net
Thu Feb 3 11:08:35 EST 2005


What command did you use to run your mem test? I just man'd memtest and did 
not come up with anything?

Thanks,

H. Crissman

On Thursday 03 February 2005 07:50 am, 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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