[Centos] IBM x226 lockups, convert CentOS to RHEL 3.0

[Syv Ritch]

On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:33:27 -0500, Barry L. Kline wrote:
> I have a friend who has been having an intermittent problem
> with his nice, shiny new IBM x226 server.  It's a Xeon
> processor, 1.5Gb RAM, hardware RAID controller running CentOS 3
>
> The system will will sometimes run for a couple of weeks, then
> simply lock up -- nothing on the console, no response to
> pings, no "caps-lock" lights, no kernel panic indicators,
> nothing in the logs to indicate the problem.  Other times the
> machine may lock up three times in one day. At the last call
> to me he did report that the hard drive lights flicker every
> once in a while during one of the systems catatonic states,
> but other than that there was no indication of life.
>

I had a very similar problem at a customer of mine. It took a few 
month to figure the problem. 

The system was running backups of the proc directory and that would 
crash the system on random basis because it would create the wrong 
drive size. After that no crash, ever.

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