Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ550 (RaQ4 Hardware) Help needed desperately - System Hanging - Kernel Panics etc...

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jim Scott wrote:

> We have 3 RaQ4 servers we have converted to use the RaQ550 software. All 3
> of these servers have been kept up to date with patches. Have applied the
> PKG files from NUONCE networks for the kernel patches.
>
> Only 1 of these servers is in production because the first few weeks after
> we built the first machine it started hanging after a few weeks. SMTP
> service would stop responding, Could not SSH. However you could get to the
> website interface but could not log in. Sometimes it would totally hang. A
> reboot always fixes it.
>
> We built 2 more servers and let them sit idle. After a few weeks or more
> these two servers also would end up hanging. This is with nothing accessing
> them except our monitoring applicatin which is just checking for HTTP and
> SMTP port access.
>
> I posted in the Cobalt FORUM on the SUN site and it seems others have had
> similiar problems. It seems that when it hangs there is a kernel panic.
>
> Well our server that is in production has clients on it and we keep adding
> them and it is happening more and more frequent. We found someone that
> suggested booting from ROM kernel. (cmos -c defboot r) We did this about a
> week ago and so far no problem. EXCEPT!! Frontpage has stopped working when
> you try and add a new site and add frontpage to it. You get an error like
> this

Have you tried a cmos restore?
It sometimes cures strange thingts.

Gerald
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