On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Vandaman vandaman2002-sk@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
We have a server which locks up about once a week (for the past 3 weeks now), without any warning, and the only way to recover it, is to reset the server. This causes unwanted downtime, and often software loss as well.
How do I debug the server, which runs CentOS 5.2 to see why it locks up?
Are those the only logs you've got. Normally linux is very chatty, and you get WARNING, PANIC etc messages. What kernel are you using? Does a previous kernel or CentOS plus kernel stop the problem?
Regards, Vandaman.
Well, on a standard CentOS 5.2, /var/log/messages will be the the place to log problems like this, or where else can I get more info?
I've upgraded the kernel to xen.gz-2.6.18-92.1.18.el5 but can only reboot the server tomorrow, during a planned maintenaince window and then see what it does