[cobalt-users] RAQ4i Crashes Weekly

[Paul Donovan <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

The last two Wednesdays, in the early morning hours, my RAQ4i server 
(that's been running like a charm for 3 years) suddenly locked up. 
The front panel buttons won't do anything.  I can't telnet into it, 
connection is refused/closed.  Web and Email services are locked up. 
I could only turn off the power switch on the back to get it to 
reboot.

When I rebooted last week it seemed to take a long time (about 10 
minutes) to clear the DISK DRIVE ACCESS start-up procedure, although 
this morning this only took a minute or so.

I was suspecting that the hard drive, or some other hardware might be 
on the fritz, but with my Wintel servers when hardware fails its not 
on a schedule.

When going through the forums on Cobalt I see references to RAQ3's 
having similar issues.  And something about a upgrade patch being bad.

Last week, Wednesday/Thursday/Friday, I was upgrading my server with 
all the latest patches from Cobalt.  But that was AFTER the crash. 
Also I was re-installing MySQL and trying to get MyPHPAdmin working 
(not successful yet!!).

I was considering installing a new hard drive (a 40 gb one) to 
replace the internal 20gb one but realized I'd have to also do a 
complete system restore and..... I'm just hoping that I don't need to 
do this for a while.

If anyone has anything to suggest on this problem I'd appreciate it. 
More than 1/2 of my hosting clients come due for renewal at the end 
of April.  If I'm going to have trouble now is the time to move them 
(to another server or to a new hosting service).

Thanks

Paul

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