Peter Møller Neergaard wrote: > Over the weekend, we installed a new server based on two Xeon 5130 > processors. We installed Fedora Core 5 and updated to the latest > versions on the package. Good. > Since installing the server, we've two times experienced that the server > completely hang: all processes became unresponsive and there was no longer > generated any log information. In both cases we had to hard reboot the > machine. The first time after 3 hours, the second time after 30 minutes. The chances are that you've either got a hardware problem or a hardware incompatibility. Have you run memtest86 on these machines? (Unfortunately, this will require quite a lot of downtime). Are these servers running X Windows (GNOME, KDE, or something else)? If so, can you try booting into run-level 3? Either the hangs will go away (in which case, Look Hard at the graphics hardware), or you might get some debugging information on the screen. See http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#runlevel for details. Have you loaded any drivers that weren't provided by Fedora? Have you checked that the server isn't getting too hot? Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Microsoft has few friends, only partners it has not aprilcottage.co.uk | decided to squish yet. | -- http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31450
