The 03.08.14 at 17:59, Josh Trutwin wrote:
Well, after three complete reinstalls and one hard drive failure, I just cannot get it to stay up. The frustrating thing is that there are never any error messages when it goes down. Actually, it doesn't really go down, it just hangs. No network and no X. Reset doesn't work, holding in the power button for 10 seconds does though to restart it.
It is 8.1? The kernel on 8.1 is faulty, if you have at least one reiserfs partition. You should enable "barrier=none" option in fstab for those partitions, or use the patched kernel they provided. The symptom was a complete absolute sudden crash: every ting stopped, nothing in the logs, no network access, keyboard locked, num lock and cap lock led blinking --> ie, kernel crash signaling. Often the HD led would remain on. One more possibility apart from the other things you were told already :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson