RE: [cobalt-users] newbie with cube 2 problem

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<snip>
> Can anybody give me some pointers as where to start looking to see 
> if anything obvious is wrong with the little box, that is if there is 
> anything to check out or what direction to take. If it was an 
> NT box I 
> would simply trash the system and start fresh I am a little 
> reluctant to 
> arch off all the emails and start fresh with an OS reload if I don't 
> really have to.
</snip>

Okay, the fact that the box seems to be locking up is reasonably serious. When it does this, can you get the panel-buttons on the Qube to do anything, or are those also dead?
I'm assuming the LCD is fixed on your hostname/ip no matter which buttons you push.

In which case it can be a little tricky to track this down. Unfortunately it does mean delving into the Linux/RedHat side of the little fella!
Get a telnet session to the unit (It might need to be switched on via the GUI, (Control Panel > Access Rights > Telnet access.
Then login as root. Now you'll be at the linux prompt, the first thing to check is disk-space, as I know ours caused problems till i reshuffled things. To get diskspace, type:
df -h
You'll get something like this:
Filesystem	Size  Used  Avail  Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/hda1	291M 234M    56M    81%        /
/dev/hda3	194M 8.3M   186M     4%        /var
/dev/hda4	7.2G 11M    7.1G     0%        /home

What you're looking at here is the partitions mounted, and see how much free space they have. Nothing should be LESS than say 10Mb or that would cause problems.


Next thing to check, is wait till the machine dies again, then telnet in and do:
tail -5000 /var/log/messages |more

(thats the pipe symbol to page the output before more)
This is the system log, space your way through it and see what happened before it crashed, and if possible post anything interesting back to the list, and somebody might recognise the fault.


Not exactly a fix, but a couple of things for you to check, feel free to contact me directly however if you wish.

Regards,

Andy
andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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