Re: ridiculous unstability with fedora 3......help me please !

From: Mihai Osian (zzz_at_zzz.com)
Date: 02/27/05

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    Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:39:28 +0100

    ben wrote:
    > There is no syslog, and I'm not sure what to look out for. There isn't
    > really any errors that stand out.
    >

       Do you mean you have typed "less /var/log/syslog" in the console and
    you got the error "No such file or directory" ?...
       If so, please try the following:

    dmesg > out.txt
    ps ax >> out.txt
    ifconfig >> out.txt
    mount >> out.txt
    less /etc/fstab >> out.txt

      And post the file out.txt here. If everything freezes so badly, the
    most likely problems are bad hardware (as I said), or inter-process
    communication problems, for example no "/tmp" directory, loopback
    network interface down or something similar. I imagine a corrupted
    filesystem could also have this effect. If you use NFS, a malfunctioning
    NFS server can freeze up your station.
       The file mounting problems you mentioned should be the starting point
    for your search. If the graphical system doesn't allow you to check
    what's wrong, switch to a text-mode console - press Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or
    F2..F6) and run the commands from there. To switch back to X-windows,
    press Ctrl-Alt-F7. It surprises me that you know how to configure NAT
    and DNS, but you don't know how to run a proper diagnostic.

    Mihai

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