RE: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash

I remember hearing of a way so you could get an indication of what went
wrong. netdump or something like that? I have a server that occasionally
locks up hard for no apparent reason, I wonder if anyone can recommend a
way to see what happened?


Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:13:04 -0700
From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I did a hardware reset. What is the 3 finger kill?

You've never heard of <crtl><alt><delete> as the three-finger kill?

At any rate, it sounds to me as though you have a hardware problem *sigh*.
Since you rebooted, and it did the std. fsck (I would hope), then you
might try taking the system down, and running memtest86.

Let me note that I spent months resolving my wife's system, which had the
same thing - it would freeze, mostly with a screensaver on, but sometimes
while using it. Turned out to be the video card.

mark

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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:33 -0700
From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

My server decided to crash about 10pm last night. It just locked up.
I
came in this morning and the console was unresponsive, no virtual
terminal, nothing. /var/log/messages doesn't show anything either.
Admittedly I am pretty new to linux, and I don't know what other logs I
can check.
<snip>
How did you restart it - the three-finger kill, or did you need to do a
hardware reset?

mark

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