[lug] Reboot Problem

[Bill Wimsatt]

Thanks for the memtest utility. I will try it out.

After more testing, I think that the problem is either a bad IDE
controller or a bad drive. On some reboots, I do not see any IDE drives.
I am using Western Digital drives. Unfortunately I only have SCSI drives
to swap into the system, so...


Regards,
Bill



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]
On Behalf Of Sexton, George
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:33 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: RE: [lug] Reboot Problem

Go to

www.memtest86.com

and download memtest and run it on the server. It takes about an hour,
and
it will catch bad RAM.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
Home of Connect Daily Web Calendar Software
http://www.mhsoftware.com/connectdaily.htm
Voice: 303 438 9585

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Bill Wimsatt
Sent: 05 September, 2002 12:43 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: [lug] Reboot Problem


I have a server that has been running RedHat 7.2 for several months with
no
problems. I restarted a daemon last evening and now the server reboots
itself indiscrimantly: on start of Gnome, on start of terminal shells,
on
start of daemons. I do not think it is a file system problem. Sometimes
Gnome will start with very erratic mouse behaviour (uncontrollable)
which
leads me to believe it is an X corruption, but other times it starts
fine.
Very strange behavior. Anyone care to take a shot on the problem and
(most
importantly) a fix (I do not want to rebuild the server).

Regards,
Bill Wimsatt


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