On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:04:23PM -0400, Mathew Johnston wrote: > I have a potato box that is running samba, mysql, apache, proftpd, > Xwindows (but connects to another box to run all of its apps) and is a > masq firewall. Last night it froze up while running a screensaver > remotely (on the other xwindows box, over the lan). No messages in > syslog. I'd like to stop this from happening again. Any ideas as to > how to track downt he offending software? By froze up, btw, I mean > wouldnt accept ssh connections, etc, not just like X froze up on it's > own. I know its just one crash, but I dont want to have to put up with > an unstable box :) (and yes, I know its probably x doing it, but x has > to run, as i dont have another spare box laying around :)
What kernel are you running? I had a string of crashes from Jan - May of this year running 2.2.14 and a remotely mounted Samba partition. Conflicts with the 2.2.14 kernel. You should update to 2.2.16 or later (for several reasons) or go with a 2.0.36 or later 2.0.x series kernel. In my case, system would freeze and/or lock up, or spontaneously reboot. This was generally preceeded by several hours by a kernel Oops in /var/log/kernel. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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