From: Tim Donahue (tdonahuehaynes-group.com)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 09:37:17 CST

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On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:22 -0800, Josh Black wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm using a generic PC running 3.6 as my firewall. Everything was
> working wonderfully until about 3 weeks ago when it started randomly
> locking up. The entire machine freezes. It doesn't respond to pings,
> the console keyboard doesn't work, nothing. The only thing I can do is
> cycle the power.
>
> So far I've tried swapping out the NICs, the keyboard, even the entire
> PC itself for another spare one I have that runs 3.6 as well. Nothing
> makes a difference.
>
> I have been searching and searching trying to figure out why it's doing
> this, but I can't find any answers. I checked /var/log/messages and
> there are no error messages there. The screen doesn't show a kernel
> panic or anything like that. I'm not even sure where I need to be
> looking. Any ideas at all would be helpful at this point. Thanks!

Any possibility the power is a bit dodgy? I have had systems that had
issues with power sags and such while other systems ran find from the
same surge protector. If you tried one a "Line Interactive" UPS may
help with the problem.

The other thing that I have seen cause that kind of freeze is bad
memory. In my experience different operating systems deal with memory
quirks better(?) than others, for example my Compaq Proliant 1850's ran
find for years with NT4 installed, but I found problems with the memory
when I installed OpenBSD.

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Tim Donahue <tdonahuehaynes-group.com>
Haynes Group, Incorporated

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