BGL

Robert Slade bsd at bathnetworks.com
Sat Oct 1 07:34:59 PDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 15:01, Tamouh H. wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> For anyone here to be able to help you with this, we need much more
> information.
> 
> For example:
> 
> Make/Model of the machine:
> Type of CPUs, Speed:
> Type of RAM/Size:
> Type of Controller Card:
> Type of Hard Drives:
> Network Card:
> Applications running:
> 
> or post a full dmesg.boot
> 
> If you have compiled a new Kernel, post the modifications you've made to the
> Kernel.
> 
> How random are these reboots ? Do they happen after a day ? a week ? Do they
> always happen at the same time ?
> 
> I've once encountered random reboots on cPanel servers due to a cron perl
> script that did not have the proper path specified.
> 
> The more info you give, the more helpful we can be here. Thanks!
> 
> Tamouh
> 
Tamouth,

Thank you for the reply.

I did post several mails to the list and did not get any replies.

The machine is back in storage at present as I could not afford to spend
any more time on it.

The details as far as I can remember without getting it out are:

Proliant 5000 server fitted with quad Xenon 200Mhz processors and 1Gbyte
of memory with a raid controller and 5 9.1 Scsi drives. 

To try and isolate the problem I removed all the drives and put a spare
9.1 drive in. As far as applications went I was using DHCP and a DNS
plus xwindows/kde with vncserver on a small test network consisting of a
router and a windows xp pro machine running putty and tightvnc to
connect.

I tried 5.4 stable 1st. With the standard kernel ie without any changes
from the generic it worked fine - running for over 48 hours. Using the
SMP kernel ie using the smp config with no other changes, I got random
reboots after between 1/2 hr and 6 hrs.

I also tried 6.0 beta via cvsup build world mergemaster etc. This gave
the same results. I had to stop at that point as I ran out of time. I
will have another go when I have time.

Rob 
 



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