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

["Jim Scott" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Also any suggestions as to the version of CMOS we should be running on the
RaQ4 hardware with RaQ550 software?

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ550 (RaQ4 Hardware) Help needed desperately -
System Hanging - Kernel Panics etc...


> 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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