I remember hearing of a way so you could get an indication of what went wrong. netdump or something like that? I have a server that occasionally locks up hard for no apparent reason, I wonder if anyone can recommend a way to see what happened? >>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:13:04 -0700 >>From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >>I did a hardware reset. What is the 3 finger kill? > > You've never heard of <crtl><alt><delete> as the three-finger kill? > > At any rate, it sounds to me as though you have a hardware problem *sigh*. > Since you rebooted, and it did the std. fsck (I would hope), then you > might try taking the system down, and running memtest86. > > Let me note that I spent months resolving my wife's system, which had the > same thing - it would freeze, mostly with a screensaver on, but sometimes > while using it. Turned out to be the video card. > > mark >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth2006@xxxxxxx >>Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:07 AM >>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list >>Subject: Re: Mysterious RHEL 4 crash >> >>>Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:47:33 -0700 >>>From: "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>>My server decided to crash about 10pm last night. It just locked up. >>I >>>came in this morning and the console was unresponsive, no virtual >>>terminal, nothing. /var/log/messages doesn't show anything either. >>>Admittedly I am pretty new to linux, and I don't know what other logs I >>>can check. >><snip> >>How did you restart it - the three-finger kill, or did you need to do a >>hardware reset? >> >> mark >> >>-- >>redhat-list mailing list >>unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> >>-- >>redhat-list mailing list >>unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list