Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 spontaneous reboots

2016-05-30 Thread Bill Gee
Hello everyone - I found the core dumps. They are in /var/crash. This directory contains a directory for each crash, named by IP address-date-time. Each directory contains a vmcore and a vmcore-dmesg.txt file. The vmcore-dmesg.txt files are mostly the kernel initialization stuff, same as yo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 spontaneous reboots

2016-05-29 Thread Anthony K
On 30/05/16 10:10, Bill Gee wrote: What else can I look at? TL;DR sar -m TEMP | less (sar can be found in the sysstat package) --- I have a Debian based media server that was exhibiting similar symptoms after having served me well for more than 4 years. During my troubleshooting, I came

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 spontaneous reboots

2016-05-29 Thread FrancisM
Check the hardware system health it could be that there is a faulty component that triggering to reboot or maybe high temperature (overheated) processor check your hardware fan if still working On Monday, 30 May 2016, Keith Keller wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On 2016-05-30, Bill Gee > wrote: > > > > By

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 spontaneous reboots

2016-05-29 Thread Keith Keller
Hi Bill, On 2016-05-30, Bill Gee wrote: > > By luck I saw the beginning of a reboot on the server console. Normally I > have > other systems up on the KVM switch. It appears to have dumped core. I don't > know where to look for the core dump files. They are not in /root. One place you mig

[CentOS] CentOS 6 spontaneous reboots

2016-05-29 Thread Bill Gee
Hello everyone - My CentOS 6.8 server has been rebooting itself every 2 to 4 hours for the last several days. I do not know where to look for logs that might give a clue what the problem is. There are no unusual entries in /var/log/messages. I looked over other log files in /var/log and foun