Server "freezing"

[bronto]

Wow, that would be too easy.  I'll try it.

Anyone else have ideas?

Rob


>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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