Re: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 freezing up

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 8/27/00 4:48 PM, Rob Rosenberger at junkmail@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>> Has anyone had an experience where the Qube 2
>>> freezes-up for no apparent reason, resulting in
>>> a forced re-start? Reason? This is getting
>>> really annoying.
> 
> My original Qube2 never achieved ten straight days of uptime in the six
> months I had it.  The box stopped booting soon after installing Cobalt's OS
> 3.0 upgrade package.  Ironically, it bit the bucket while testing it for
> Cobalt's support crew.  I paid $149+33 to replace it with a refurb Qube2,
> only to finally discover bugs in both Samba and in the OS 3.0 upgrade
> package.  The refurb box crashed on Cobalt during one of their own Telnet
> sessions.  I regret to say Samba remains unstable on this box.  Qube2
> stability problems manifest themselves most aggressively during a restore
> attempt in my experience; it took me almost three weeks and a kludge
> workaround to restore critical business files.  I therefore must strongly
> recommend non-Cobalt backup procedures if you store critical business files
> on a Qube2 -- especially if you installed the OS 3.0 upgrade package.

I am intrigued by this, as I have had Qubes with uptimes of close to six
months.  I had one that was a development server and NAT box on my home
network and never expereienced any such problems.

The repeated problems that you had make me wonder if it had something to do
with how you were implementing the machines?  Were you doing anything
'special' or were you just taking it right out of the box and installing it
using plain vanilla configurations?

What were the bugs that you found in Samba?

I am just curious because I have never heard of such problems before.

-k