Server "freezing"

[Jim Potter]

I've had that problem on-and-off with a dual 1gig tower.  Anybody have any
ideas how a dead motherboard battery could kill all of the high level servers,
but still allow the machine to be pinged?



> 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.
>
> > 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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Sincerely,

Jim Potter
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