Server "freezing"

[Jonathan Smith]

We had a similar problem on one of our servers - it turned out that the 
battery on the motherboard was dying.  We replaced that and it's worked 
fine ever since.

No guarantees but it's an inexpensive fix - the batteries are less than 
$10 I think.


On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 11:53  AM, Rob Brandt wrote:

> I am having a problem for the last month or so and don't know what to 
> do about it.  It's happened 4 times in November, and last night as 
> well.
>
> The server "freezes".  It is completely unresponsive to the keyboard, 
> http, mail services, telnet, ssh, and ftp.  I can successfully ping > it.
>
> When this has happened, I end up having to shut it down at the power 
> button and reboot.  When rebooting it goes through the filesystem 
> check and often encounters and Unexpected Inconsistency, requiring me 
> to run fsck.  After going through that, it fixes several things 
> (sometimes a lot, sometimes a little) and then loads properly and all 
> is well.  For a while.  Then it does it again in 2 to 14 days.  I 
> don't know whether the unexpected inconsistency is the cause or the 
> result of the "freeze".
>
> Are there any diagnostics that I can perform to discover the problem? 
> If there are file system errors causing this, are there utilities that 
> can be run that will prevent it or minimize the risk?
>
> Any advice appreciated.  Running:
>
> Beige G3 Tower;
> YDL 2.2
> 768 MB Ram
> YDL boot disk : original 4gig IDE (hda8)
> Data disk for /home and /var: New (2 mos) 60 gig IBM (hdb2 & 3)
>
> All of the above partitions have exhibited the Unexpected 
> Inconsistency.
>
> Rob
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