On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:33:42PM -0500, Small, Jim wrote: > Funny that BSD/OS ran for so long without hard locks. Since Linux is > aggressive in using memory, I was thinking it could be a memory (RAM) issue. > So I am running memtest86 3.1 overnight on the machine to grill the RAM. If > there are no memory errors detected I'll try those settings tomorrow. I don't have your original message but I got the impression you were not running the FC1 SMP kernel. If you are you should look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109962 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109497 Your symptoms don't sound like these problems however. The fact that you can't ping the system means it's probably different. > I have a console cable. I'm assuming I just connect it to Com1 and watch? > I'll try it tomorrow. I use console cables all the time for network devices > and Suns, but not much for x86 boxes (which this is). You have to add some kernel parameters to get a serial console. Here is my grub entry to do that: title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n81 panic=60 nmi_watchdog=1 initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img Adjust for your kernel version. > On the one hand this is frustrating, but on the other, that's how you learn, > right?!? That sums it up pretty well. At least with Free software you can dig around and learn. That makes it enjoyable at times as well. -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
