Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3i freezes

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 29 May 2000, Emilio wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is anyone aware of a problem with RaQ3i servers freezing?
> 
> If you powerdown the server and restart, the server will not come up,
> but if you do a reboot (all through the front panel), the server will
> come back to life.

This symptom is typical of hard drive problems, seen it on other machines,
if the drive is sick it will take it a long time to reset, by the time
it's done the machine has already given up trying to boot, but if you
reset the machine without cycling the power the machine boots because the
drive is now alive....WD's seem to do this especially from experience ;0

unfortunatly, bad ram can do stuff like this too....

run badblocks a few times? (not finding a bad block isn't conclusive, the
newer drives do a pretty good job of hiding errors :(

(installing lots of updates and patches might have been coincidental,
since it uses more ram , and put stiff in different places on the disk...)

10 cent opinion....since there's not enough info here, you need to isolate
things more...

logs?

> 
> I have installed all patches at Cobalt's site, but can't figure out what
> can cause this freeze.
> 
> 
> The order followed to install the server was:
> 1.- Server IP and network config at first boot
> 2.- Server browser final configuration
> 3.- OS and Security patches install
> 4.- ChiliSoft ASP install (working ok)
> 5.- Sit and wait for the server to freeze. It did.
> 
> 
> Server will work fine for about an hour or two (record is 18 hours) and
> then will freeze again.
> 
> I have another RaQ3i, same config and serving 50 domains with no
> problem.
> 
> Sounds familiar to someone?
> 
> Emilio Saldana
> emilio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ADigital Mexico
> 
> 
> 
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