Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2086 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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