On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:37 -0800, Tod Merley wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 5:55 PM, Mail List <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Anyone know what be causing what appears to be something in cron (4 am or > > so) freezing the machine > > Now it is freezing around 4 am .. any ideas what may be causing this ? > > Its been a happy F7 machine for a long time prior to this ? > 1. As Ed has suggested, check out the jobs in cron. 4am is the point time the standard cron-jobs (makewhatis, updatedb etc) are being launched. So it's very likely it might be related to them. My "usual suspects" would be * rpmdb corruption (I once had a case something related to rpm hung each night at 4am) * networking issues (updatedb trying to recurse into stale nfs-mounted file systems). * yum-updatesd. * some cron-job related job running out of diskspace. Ralf
