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"SMJ" == Shawn M Jones smj@littleprojects.org

SMJ> Greetings everyone, I've got a problem with my fileserver SMJ> running CentOS 3.1. The kernel seems to crash about once SMJ> a day (inevitably when I'm not present), forcing me to SMJ> reboot. This behavior started after I applied the new SMJ> kernel patch (2.4.21-15.0.3.EL.c0).

SMJ> There is nothing useful in /var/log/messages and the only SMJ> reason I know when it crashes is due to my fetchmail log.

SMJ> Has anyone else seen anything like this? Did I patch too SMJ> soon?

My workstation (running the new kernel) did something similar yesterday -- I left my office, came back a while later, and the screen was blank. I wasn't able to switch to a VC or log in remotely (the system was pingable, and the first chunk of an SSH connection would succeed, but not complete). I was forced to power cycle.

What seemed to be the same problem happened to our main file server, still running RHL9 with kernel 2.4.20-31.9smp, the day before. With no X, I was able to type a username at the login: prompt, but never got a password prompt. The machine behaved similarly with ssh connections.

There was nothing obvious in the logs. I could figure out roughly when the crash happened because nothing appeared in the logs after that time.

Claire

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