Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:25:57 -0400 From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" <tforrest@shellworld.net> To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: System hangs ... out of ideas ... Message-ID: <200105012226.SAA02949@ns.shellworld.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105011718510.39260-100000@awww.jeah.net>
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I'd pull the RAM and look at it carefully. Could have just gone *POOF*. Maybe it was nudged in the slightest way. On Tue, 1 May 2001 17:19:27 -0500 (CDT), Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: >Have you tried to get the tech to do a CVSUP on the machine to the latest >revision? Maybe the problem you are having will be fixed by a make >buildworld. > >-- Jonathan M. Slivko > >------------------------------------------ >Jonathan M. Slivko <jslivko@jeah.net> >IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Networks >Web: http://jslivko.orcon.net.nz/ > >"FreeBSD -- The Power to Serve!" >----------------------------------------- > >On Tue, 1 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > >> >> I have a server on a SuperMicro Dual MB, good for 4g of RAM (only have >> 1gig right now) motherboard ... onboard SCSI, onboard Ethernet ... only >> thing not onboard was the video card ... purr'd like a kitten, never had a >> problem with it ... runs ~60 jails quite well ... >> >> On monday morning, we installed a second 18gig hard drive ... rebooted, >> shut down one of the jails to copy it to the new drive ... after >> 10minutes, hung solid. No keyboard, no pings nothing ... >> >> Great, bad drive, so, since we can't do anything about it right away, we >> leave the drive idle except a bit of swap ... hung at 1am ... tech went >> down, pulled the drive out and rebooted ... >> >> 6am, she hangs again ... same symptoms, one less drive ... so it isn't >> that drive ... >> >> tech goes down, reboots ... I get long enough to login to the machine, >> start up a top process ... hangs solid again ... >> >> We haven't touched anything on the motherboard, no changes in RAM, just >> added and then removed that one 18gig drive ... we've checked (and will >> re-check) to make sure cables and RAM is seated right, but first scan >> through the machine showed both to be fine ... >> >> I've pretty much run out of ideas ... if it was SCSI, I should be able to >> ping the box still, normally, right ... ? >> >> The catalyst appears to have been the 18gig drive, as far as we can tell >> ... but removing it, the problem persists ... >> >> I'm running 4.3-STABLE(ish) on that machine ... might be a couple of weeks >> old, its down right now (and 2500km away), so can't get any specifics ... >> >> Help? Thoughts? Someething I'm not thinking to look at? >> >> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy >> Systems Administrator @ hub.org >> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@shellworld.net http://www.shellworld.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: Computer programmers know how to use their hardware. PGP Public Key Fingerprint: B9ED C46F C92E 0101 4B4C BFC1 907C A0D0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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