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Re: [suse-amd64] Mystery crashes
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:15:48 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <m3brnp61zz.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
"Eugene de Villiers" <edevilliers@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> My dual opteron 242 K8W thunder with 4Gb of DDR400 Reg ECC has been
> running Suse 9.0 for a couple of weeks now.
> Everything seems to be working fine and memtest showed no problems.
>
> Unfortunately, every few days or so (it has happened 3 times now), the
> system just freezes up, and I mean completely. No logins, no escapes,
> no keyboard or mouse response at all.
> It still responds to pings though, which is strange since no other
> remote operations are successful.
>
> There are no messages in the logs (at least the ones I've checked), so
> I assume its probably hardware related. Any advice/checks I can try?
Just the obvious thing: Do you run the latest BIOS?
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
> My dual opteron 242 K8W thunder with 4Gb of DDR400 Reg ECC has been
> running Suse 9.0 for a couple of weeks now.
> Everything seems to be working fine and memtest showed no problems.
>
> Unfortunately, every few days or so (it has happened 3 times now), the
> system just freezes up, and I mean completely. No logins, no escapes,
> no keyboard or mouse response at all.
> It still responds to pings though, which is strange since no other
> remote operations are successful.
>
> There are no messages in the logs (at least the ones I've checked), so
> I assume its probably hardware related. Any advice/checks I can try?
Just the obvious thing: Do you run the latest BIOS?
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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