Mike wrote:
On Friday 17 August 2007 16:10, Brandon Carl wrote:
For some reason, my server that I have running openSUSE 10.2 has been freezing randomly. It just completely locks up and the only way i can get it to work again is by doing a hard reset. I have no idea what is causing this to happen, because it had been working perfectly before. One change I did notice recently, however, is that one of my cron jobs that is supposed to connect to a ftp server and download all the files in a directory stopped working. The only output of the cronjob is this: "ftp: Name or service not known". Also, I don't know if this has anything to do with the problem, but I recently setup sendmail correctly so that my cronjobs could email me the results.
I am thoroughly confused.
Don't be. When I've had problems like this, it almost always turned out to be hardware. I'd check memory first. Let memtest86 run for a while on it. If that turns out OK, my next suggestion would be the power supply. Unless you have a way to test it, putting another one in is about the easiest solution to see it the lockups go away. It could also be a drive going bad.
Just random thoughts..
Mike
Also, if it is hardware, try giving the boot parameter of "noapic" when your system boot. In a lot of situations I have found the "advanced programmable interrupt controller" not to be very advanced at all.