Re: Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks to all who replied. I was able to take a monitor to the machine and discovered that there was an error in the NTP configuration (I'm using a GPS-disciplined oscillator for the timecode, and was using the kernel PPS interface patches) that was causing some sort of meltdown. I've posted a

Re: Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
Thanks to all who replied. I was able to take a monitor to the machine and discovered that there was an error in the NTP configuration (I'm using a GPS-disciplined oscillator for the timecode, and was using the kernel PPS interface patches) that was causing some sort of meltdown. I've posted a

Re: Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Bergbauer
On Sun Jan 18, 2004 at 08:3302AM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that > operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random > times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is > concern

Re: Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread SZALAY Attila
Greets, On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Upon reboot things return to normal and there's no trace of anything in the > logs to indicate what the problem. > > I guess I have two questions -- does anyone recognize this problem, and is > there any way to capture more data that might

Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is concerned (the NICs are SMC 9342 using the epic100 driver). It simply stops resp

Re: Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread Michael Bergbauer
On Sun Jan 18, 2004 at 08:3302AM -0500, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that > operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random > times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is > concern

Re: Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread SZALAY Attila
Greets, On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, John Ackermann N8UR wrote: > Upon reboot things return to normal and there's no trace of anything in the > logs to indicate what the problem. > > I guess I have two questions -- does anyone recognize this problem, and is > there any way to capture more data that might

Tracing silent crashes

2004-01-18 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
I have a remote machine running Debian testing and kernel 2.4.21, that operates in headless mode (no keyboard or monitor attached). At random times, it seems to die, at least as far as any network connectivity is concerned (the NICs are SMC 9342 using the epic100 driver). It simply stops resp