On Saturday 13 March 2004 11:44, Guolin Cheng wrote: > Hi, > > It is quite strange that my FC-1 Box died mysteriously several > times a week. now it died again. I can ping it from other host, and > nmap it without issues, but when I try to ssh to it, or access it > by means of nfs, I got no response. > > The machine box is a HP workstation xw4100, 2x4G CPU, 4G memory, > 4x250GB SATA drives(two connected by means of Intel ICH5 on > mothboard, 2 by means of Promise RAID S150 TX4), the kernel is > upgraded 2.4.22-1-ntpl-2174smp. > > I can not find errors in /var/log/messages. I have been trying to > install a model FC-1 machine to replace our existing RH8.0/9.0 > since the latter has no suuport soon. sigh... > > any suggestions are greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks. I don't know which services you have running but look at all your service associated error logs. I ran into something similar when an apache startup process repeatedly seg faulted when trying to create child processes. Regards, Mike Klinke