[plug] Intermittant, constant crashes

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Shane Short wrote:

> 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.


Do you get anything to the screen?
Kernel panic maybe???



> >
> > 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
> >
> 

Had a similar problem with 6.2 and custom built kernels, I needed to use
the distro kernel, tried the source rpm and all.
Anyway just a thought.


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