Server "freezing"

[Michael George]

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On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 03:03  PM, bronto wrote:

> 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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-Michael George
  Senior Engineer, Software Development
  Aurora Video Systems, Inc.