It may not!!
I have the same issue with CentOS 3.x The box freezes if I leave auditd
enabled.
Once I killed auditd my problems were over (I too suspected hardware). Now
I get lots of laus(y) errors in my syslogd but the freezes are gone.
Never found out what the problem was, just live with it
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Hugo Perez Casanova wrote:
> Thanks everybody.
>
> Yes, it seems to be a hardware issue.
>
> Regards.
>
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 08:54, Alex White wrote:
>
>> Hugo Perez Casanova wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> Two days ago a server got freezed, not responding at console or by LAN.
>>> I noticed both caps lock and scroll lock LEDs at the keyboard flashing.
>>>
>>> I think this could be a hardware problem, but I don't recall where I
>>> read about this flashing indicators.
>>>
>>> The hardware is an Intel based white box PC running CentOS 3.5 fully
>>> updated.
>>>
>>> Anybody knows what the flashing LEDs means?
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>
>> The last time I saw flashing LEDs was during a kernel panic. This
>> usually is a hardware issue (it has been for me). YMMV
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Alex
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