On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:49 -0400, Tod wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 21:08 -0400, Tod wrote: > >> Tod Merley wrote: > >>> On 5/3/07, Tod <tod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> I'm trying to stabilize a RH9 machine so I can upgrade to FC6. For some > >>>> reason GRUB is ignoring the timeout and upon reboot leaves the boot > >>>> screen up without ever booting the default image. > >>>> > >>>> Has anyone ever heard of this. Anything I can check? > >>>> > >>>> Thanks - Tod > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> fedora-list mailing list > >>>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >>>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >>>> > >>> Hi Tod! > >>> > >>> I am not sure exactly what you are saying. > >>> > >>> Can you hit a key (in particular escape) when the boot screen > >>> (splash?) first comes up and see the boot menu? > >> > >> I'm actually assisting a remote user. The problem is that if the > >> machine reboots, which it magically seems to be doing every Saturday, > >> and there is no one around, it sits at the Grub splash screen until > >> someone shows up on Monday and selects a kernel to boot to. After that > >> everything is fine. > > > > I'd be checking every crontab I can find for the reboot issue. I'd also > > be checking the machine for rootkits and other malware. This sounds > > like the machine's "owned" by a hacker. > > > > I did and found nothing, very frustrating. Any ideas on what to look > for that I may have missed? > > I'm going to do a clamscan tonight to see if that turns up anything. > > How is the power in the room where the machine is located? Is it possible that there is a brown-out condition causing it? How about the possibility that someone is un-plugging the machine temporarily? As funny as this sounds, we had a cleaning person that was unplugging a server from a PDU to plug in his fricken buffer when he came through to buff the hall-way outside of the server room. We chased our tails for MONTHS trying to figure out the cause, until one of our junior sys-admins had to stay late one night to work on an unrelated issue. Needless to say we had a few harsh words for the manager of the cleaning crew. > Tod > -- --------------------------------------------------- Frank Tanner III (pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) ICQ: 1730844 AIM: KalokSundancer MSN: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx YIM: fbtanner
