[plug] Intermittant, constant crashes

[Shane Short]

kai you fool.... install debian *giggles*
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai" <vk6ksj at siwa.com.au>
To: "Perth Linux Users Group" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 9:21 PM
Subject: [plug] Intermittant, constant crashes


> Howdy all,
>
> For a while now my 6.2 firewall/javaradio server has been crashing for
> no apparent reason after no regular time interval.
> I have been checking the logs I know of and nothing appears to be wrong,
> however, here's a basic run down.
>
> Machine boots fine, no worries....then, maybe after 10 minutes or 3 days
> the machine will unexpectedly stop responding to any keyboard requests
> and only a hardware reset will get it running again. A common time for
> the server to stop responding is about 12 hour or so, but, as I wrote
> before it has crashed anywhere from 10 minutes or 3 days.
> That's about it really, for no apparent reason the machine stop
> responding and I can't find any trace of why in the error logs that I
> know of...everything shows as normal.
>
> System is:
> Pentium 233MMX with 64 Megs of RAM
> Red Hat Linux 6.2
>
> I have used the same machine for a few years now and this has only
> happened in the last few months, I didn't want to bother anyone on list
> before I checked the logs and did some troubleshooting, however, I'm not
> a full bottle on Linux, far from it and any help would be more than
welcome
>
> I can hear a lot of people say "wipe that crap off their and install
> Debian", that might work but it won't solve the problem of why this
> machine crashes without any warning.
> I am out of ideas and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I hope I've provided enough info.
> TIA
>
> Kai
>