From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 13:19: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raven.ravenbrook.com (raven.ravenbrook.com [193.82.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72C0B37B5D4 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 13:19:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nb@ravenbrook.com) Received: from raven.ravenbrook.com (nb@raven.ravenbrook.com [193.82.131.18]) by raven.ravenbrook.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA26934 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 21:18:51 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Barnes To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mystery crashes with 3.3-RELEASE RAS server Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 21:18:50 +0100 Message-ID: <26930.958940330@raven.ravenbrook.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a generic PC running as a RAS server. Celeron 300, 32 MB RAM, loads of swap, 3.3-RELEASE, Cyclades 16YeP, PPP, SNMPD, MRTG, Apache. A light load. After four months of trouble-free operation, it has spontaneously crashed four times in the last two weeks. No clues anywhere in /var/log. The only recent software change has been the addition of another PPP user on one of the Cyclades ports. The only other aspect of the machine which I don't understand is why MRTG (which I run every five minutes) core dumps randomly about once a week. This machine is in a locked machine room on the other side of town; I can't sit in front of it for a week waiting for it to crash. I can't trigger the crashes (although it does seem to be associated with a PPP connection being established). I'm lost for a way to proceed. So I'm working on the basis that it's probably a hardware fault. I'm going to swap it for a new machine. Other suggestions? Nick Barnes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message