Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Travis Owens <towens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all!

Ok, I've got a generic machine, PII 400 on an Asus board, it's got an 8G
maxtor, a 3com 3c905c, NE2000(isa), 192M ram, and an SIS video card. So,
nothing really odd or troublesome in general.

I'm running SuSE 7.3 on this machine, and I use it as a test machine for
various configurations. I run apache w/PHP, MySQL, djbdns, qmail with
Courier IMAP, openssh, a firewall script I wrote, SAMBA, syslogd, and
snort.

It boots into level 3 (multi-user/net)

Here's the problem: I have to manually reboot this machine every
once-in-a-while because it locks up completely.  I've never seen this
before! I mean the monitor, mouse, keyboard, network, disk access light
-- nothing is working!

On top of that, there's nothing I see reporting any problems in the
syslog. I've looked over every configuration I can think of and I've
stripped the processes down to just those listed above. I cannot figure
out what's going on, other than "dying" hardware.

A "df -h" outputs this:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             8.0G  3.2G  4.8G  40% /
/dev/hda1              15M  6.5M  7.4M  47% /boot
shmfs                  93M     0   92M   0% /dev/shm

So I know the machine isn't full. I've been watching it for a while
whenever I've had to restart, and nothing strange is happening. However,
I'm have to restart more frequently the past 3 weeks. :(


Any advice on the matter would be greatly appreciated! :)

-- 
Travis

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