Hi --
My CentOS 5.8 server crashed, leaving no clue why. The last entry in /var/log/messages is a dhcpd notice around 4:00am, followed by the restart message when I rebooted. The only clue that I have is that the fan was running full speed when I restarted it. The fan slowed to normal speed.
Any ideas what I can do to find out the cause?
Hi --
My CentOS 5.8 server crashed, leaving no clue why. The last entry in /var/log/messages is a dhcpd notice around 4:00am, followed by the restart message when I rebooted. The only clue that I have is that the fan was running full speed when I restarted it. The fan slowed to normal speed.
Is normal on some mainboards.
Any ideas what I can do to find out the cause?
I would go check your hardware - memtest - look inside the case for piling dust on coolers - and check if you do not have bad capacitors (bulged)
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
Hi --
My CentOS 5.8 server crashed, leaving no clue why. The last entry in /var/log/messages is a dhcpd notice around 4:00am, followed by the restart message when I rebooted. The only clue that I have is that the fan was running full speed when I restarted it. The fan slowed to normal speed.
Any ideas what I can do to find out the cause?
Power failure?
Dale Dellutri wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Michael Eager eager@eagerm.com wrote:
Hi --
My CentOS 5.8 server crashed, leaving no clue why. The last entry in /var/log/messages is a dhcpd notice around 4:00am, followed by the restart message when I rebooted. The only clue that I have is that the fan was running full speed when I restarted it. The fan slowed to normal speed.
Any ideas what I can do to find out the cause?
Power failure?
Could you give more details? I've got servers that become completely unresponsive. I plug in a keyboard and monitor, and zip - the screen's live, but nothing works, and I have to power cycle. Is it something like that, or did it crash by itself?
mark
On 07/10/12 8:36 AM, Michael Eager wrote:
My CentOS 5.8 server crashed, leaving no clue why.
what sort of hardware was this? does it have lights out management port, like IPMI, that might provide a hardware event log? does it have ECC memory?
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