My machine (Debian 2.1 slink, stock kernel (2.0.36)) has been locking up on me unpredictably.
This occurs every several (3-4 on average) days and has been happening ever since I installed Linux on this machine. (There is no other OS on there.) My hardware is an Intel 200 MMX CPU on an Asus PI-P55/T2P4 motherboard. I am using a generic NE-2000-compatible network card, and a dial-up Internet connection with a USR Sportster 33.6 PnP (though jumpered for COM2). Anyway: I have my PPPD logging to syslog every 30 seconds so I can tell exactly when the freeze occurred even if I'm not there. Looking in syslog and messages, nothing unusual seems to happen... just that all of a sudden, the logging and everything else stops suddenly. I want to track this problem down, and I'm going to start swapping hardware to see if I can figure out what's causing this. I've already traded the netword card out for a different NE2K card, but the problem remains. Anyway, my question is: where else (besides syslog and messages) might I look for unusual traces of what might have happened just prior to the lock-up? Are there any other files that might give something away? Where would a kernel dump be (if the kernel did dump... which I doubt, but just in case...)? TIA for any information.
