On 1/4/06, Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 19:40 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I've got a test box running SUSE 10.0 that has hung twice in the last 24 hours.
How should I try to troubleshoot this? The first time I rebooted and found nothing in the log.
This is the second time and it is still hung. (hung == no network activity, no ping response, no keyboard response).
It is configured like a fileserver so it has ECC ram and hardware mirrored disks (3ware 2-port cards).
I have been lightly using the machine for a few weeks, but recently a couple of us have been doing some Ruby on Rails development. As part of that we setup FreeNX.
Next time you leave the PC leave it in tty10 (ctrl-alt-f10) when the errors go and maybe something will show there. Even if the machine is frozen there should still something on the screen. Just a thought.
When it hangs nothing new display on tty10. OTOH, the old info is still displayed. It is now locking up every few minutes so I'm not going to look into the magic-sysrq thing. (I've never used that, but I seen it recommended on some of the LKML lists.) Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century