[lug] Reboot Problem

[rm at fabula.de]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:50:51AM -0600, Sexton, George wrote:
> Memtest is so easy to do, that I routinely do it when I have a problem. Even
> if I suspected IDE problems I would still run it first.

Yeah, when we set up new server hardware fort customers we routinely set
up a small partition and put memtest on it. We add an extra entry to lilo.conf
and whenever a box shows strange behaviour we can ask the service tech.
(most boxes are in large scale sever housing) to reboot and type memtest
at the lilo prompt -- can save you a lot of time (and a trip to the other
side of the contry).
 
  Ralf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Bill Wimsatt
> Sent: 06 September, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: RE: [lug] Reboot Problem
> 
> 
> 
> 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
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> 
> -----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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