Michael Eager wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Michael Eager wrote:
Brian Mathis wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines.
I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere to indicate any problem or offer any clue why the system was hung.
Any suggestions where I might look for a clue?
<snip> > System is unresponsive. Monitor blank, no response to keyboard, > no response to remote ssh. Hit reset to reboot.
Suggestion 1: ->from the console<-, run setterm --powersave off That way, even if you connect a monitor (in our, uh, "computer labs", we have a monitor-on-a-stick), you'll still see what's on the screen at the end, not the power save blanking.
I get a message "cannot (un)set powersave mode".
Did you do it from the console? It won't work (or at least neither my manager nor I have figured out how to do it) remotely.
I'll add this to .xinitrc.
Um. This isn't X, it's below that.
The only indication that I had that there was a problem (other that attached systems were not accessing files) was that the fan(s) on the server were louder than normal.
Um. Um. What make is the server? We had that on some new Suns, where after working on them, the fans would spin up and *not* spin down to
normal.
The answer to that was, after powering them down, pull all the plugs, and leave them out for 20 sec or so....
House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM.
Any chance the problem's with the video card?
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