-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 "SMJ" == Shawn M Jones <smj at 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 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu Systems Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFA7tupB0pE8d7vd8wRAgJGAJ9EoBicmziKwHGhCQD3HrA10wuA2ACdGc/c ePxg1Ln8c/sRIIvJ1tznm2s= =gupq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----