-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:45:30 +0100, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > Since it's a server I don't run or even have a graphical surface > installed. Hang means: Console (Textmode) doesn't respond anymore, > can ping to machine okay, can connect to services but don't get a > respond. Some people said it might be a problem with the harrdisk- > layer. Assuming this would for sure make clear why the running kernel > can work properly but neither can a service spawn new children (ssh, > ftp, ...) nor could syslog write to disk (and maybe cause everything > to stop) nor could the swap-space be accessed. You could configure sys(k)logd to write *all* kernel log messages to console. Maybe that will turn something up. > Does anybody know about problems with harddisks? U-DMA related crashes as well as certain hard disks failing to return from sleep mode, which effectively blocks the kernel and new processes which want to access a disk. I have entered that into bugzilla a long time ago, and it's still there, most likely because it can also be due to a firmware bug that will never be fixed. IIRC, my work-around is either to avoid sending the disk into sleep mode or to switch off DMA. I haven't heard about other problems with harddisks. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+WK4t0iMVcrivHFQRAoo/AJ9/GPunN+4Pmp8wpRnft/PXNL55ZwCdFhcE kMdJ+6rLgAhxhRS6fdQebXE= =mwZl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
