[lug] Reboot Problem

[Michael Hirsch]

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 14:42, Bill Wimsatt wrote:
> 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).

Sounds like one of your memory chips has gone bad.  Try putting in fresh
RAM.

Michael